MERELLO, Marcelo: Buenos Aires/Argentina

Abstract

Born in Argentina in 1961, Marcelo J. Merello graduated from Buenos Aires University School of Medicine in 1987, where later on he obtained his Ph.D. degree. In Buenos Aires, he completed first, an Internal Medicine residency program at CEMIC and then one in Neurology at FLENI. He was also Research Fellow in Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square and Research Registrar in Neurology at Middlesex Hospital, both in London. Currently, he is Head of the Movement Disorders Section at the Raul Carrea Institute for Neurological Research (FLENI) in Buenos Aires and Director of Neuroscience at the same institution. He is Chair of Post Graduate Neurology at the University of Buenos Aires and Professor of Neurology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina (UCA). He also works as Clinical Researcher for National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina.

He has co-authored over 250 papers in leading peer review journals in the field of Movement Disorders and more than 20 book chapters. He has written/co-edited six books, and been member of the editorial board of the Movement Disorders Journal. Member of the IEC of the IP-MDS, founding editor of the IPMDS website, he is currently co-editor in chief of the journal: Movement Disorders Clinical Practice.