Fellowship reports

Eveline Sipido: Thank you for hosting applicants of the EAN Clinical Fellowship. How would you evaluate this EAN educational opportunity? Mark Edwards (ME)/Anthony Pereira (AP): St George’s runs one of the largest Neurology & Stroke training schemes in the UK.  We cover the UK curriculum on site and so can provide a comprehensive clinical training in neurology and stroke medicine.

  The objective of the “Clinical Fellowship Programme” is to provide a well-defined clinical observational experience in a department with recognised expertise in a specific field.
With this programme, neurologists that are still in the process of training, or recently… Continue Reading

It is with great gratitude and pleasure that I report my European Academy of Neurology Research Fellowship at the Clinical Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck. This 8-months experience (March-October 2017), performed under the supervision of Professor Markus Reindl, allowed me to join an excellent research center for the study of antibody-mediated disorders of the Central Nervous System.

Thank you for hosting applicants of the EAN Clinical Fellowship. How would you evaluate this EAN educational opportunity? This is a super opportunity for trainees in underserved areas and countries to gain practical and valuable experience of management of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorder in a pragmatic and systematic manner.

I completed Dr. DB Gupta/EAN research experience fellowship 2016 in the Epilepsy center (Epilepsihospitalet) Filadelfia, Dianalund, Denmark under Professor Sandor Beniczky. It was my first ever visit to abroad which gave me the learning experience of all the processes apart from successful completion of the project.

The chief of the neurology department at Unna Evangelical Hospital, Prof. Zaza Katsarava ( Professor of Neurology at the University of Essen) kindly accepted my attendance  at his department. The Evangelical Hospital in Unna is a multiprofile hospital, with a 75 bed inpatient department of Neurology.

It has been a great honour for me to be awarded with the EAN Research fellowship. The EAN Research Experience Fellowship allowed me to spend more than one year at the Oxford University, in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG). It has been a life changing experience for me.

Report from Dr Anca Adriana Arbune, from Bucharest, Romania visiting the Neurophysiology Department, Filadelfia Hospital, Dianalund, Denmark under the supervision of Prof. Sándor Beniczki.

Report from Dr Meri Grigoryan, from Yerevan, Armenia visiting the Department of Neurology, Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg, Germany under the supervision of prof. Peter Ringleb

Title of the project: “Delineating the molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial DNA disease: clinical and pathological studies”

Report from Dr Célia Carina Machado, from Oliveira Santa Maria, Portugal visiting the Department of Epilepsy, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Ley Sander

Report from Dr Ayman Ahmed Ashmawi, from Cairo, Egypt visiting the Department of Clinical Epileptology, Sleep Disorders and Functional Neurology in Children University Hospitals of Lyon, France, under the supervision of Prof. Alexis Arzimanoglou.

Report from Dr Cristiana Filipa Henriques Silva from Lisbon, Portugal visiting the Sleep Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain under the supervision of Prof. Alex Iranzo