Professor Vida Demarin, MD, Ph.D. graduated from School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where she gained her Master of Science thesis and Doctor of Philosophy degree. She finished her residency in neuropsychiatry in University Hospital Centre "Sestre milosrdnice", Zagreb, Croatia.
She was Head of Department of Clinical Neurology and Centre for Neurological Sciences and Brain Research in University Hospital Centre "Sestre Milosrdnice" (1994.-2012.), medical director of Medical Centre Aviva (2012-2015), director of International Institute for Brain Health (2015.-on going).
She is a full member and fellow of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She published more than 450 different papers in national and international journals, organized and participated in numerous symposia, seminars, conferences and congresses. She mentored numerous Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science theses, research fellows, residents and students.
ProfessorDemarin's field of interest is stroke prevention and management, neurorehabilitation, neurodegenerative disorders and dementia, management of headache and migraine, neuroplasticity, and neuropathic pain. She was principal investigator of numerous research projects. She is a pioneer of neurosonology in Croatia, and the founder of Summer Stroke School - Healthy Lifestyle and Prevention of Stroke and Other Brain Impairments, that has been organized in Dubrovnik, Croatia since 1990.
Professor Vida Demarin is a member of numerous national and international professional societies, president of Kuratorium of Mind&Brain INPC, Fellow of American Academy of Neurology, Fellow of American Heart Association, Fellow of European Stroke Organization, Fellow of European Academy of Neurology, Fellow of World Stroke Organization, as well as a member of several Subspecialty Panels of EAN, member of Executive Board of Central and Eastern European Stroke Society, honorary member of Polish Neurologic Society and more.
She developed intensive collaboration with colleagues from all over the world and especially with colleagues from central and eastern European countries, in order to spread knowledge and skills and interchange of ideas. She participated as a lecturer at several ESO Summer Schools as well as at several RTCs, building new connections and friendships. Only working together, under WFN motto: There is no health, without brain health, we can be successful in the fight against brain diseases
Prof. Leontino Battistin, MD, PhD. Born in Fiume (actually Rijeka, Croatia), graduated in Medicine at the University of Padova Medical School in 1963; Specialist in Neurology in 1967. During the years 1967-1970 he was Research Fellow at the Institute for Neurochemistry, Columbia University, New York, USA.
Full Professor of Neurology from 1980 and then Director of the Department of Neurosciences of the Medical School of the University of Padova from 1989 to 2009. He was the Scientific Director of the Research Hospital for Neurorehabilitation, IRCCS San Camillo, Venice, from 2005 to 2014.
He has been member of the Executive Council of the Italian Society of Neurology and the President of the Italian Society for Parkinson's Disease; he was a member of the Executive Committee on Extrapyramidal Disorders, chaired by Melvin Yahr, and after by Donald Calne, and of the one on Dementia of the World Federation of Neurology and, in 2009, Chairman of the Research Group for Organization and Delivery of Neurological Services; he has been elected at the WCN in London Vice-President for Europe of the World Federation of Neurology for the years 2001-2005; also, he has been the President of the European Society for Clinical Neuropharmacology during the years 2000-2008; he is a member of numerous International Scientific Societies, and Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He has been also a member oft
