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Dr. Antonella Macerollo, BARI, Italy  
UNIVERSITY OF BARI

CURRICULUM VITAE ANTONELLA MACEROLLO
Updated JUNE 2011
1. Personal Details
 Name: Antonella Macerollo
 Date of birth:29th February 1984
 Title: MD
 Academic Position: Trainee in Neurology, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Italy
 Postal address: Dept. of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Piazza Giulio Cesare, 11 70124 Bari, Italy
 Telephone: +39 3208422554
 E-mail: antonella.mac@hotmail.it
2. Education/Qualifications
 2001-2002: High school diploma (classical studies)
 2007-2008: Degree in Medicine and Surgery (Medical Qualification Diplome) - University of Bari, Bari, Italy
 2009: Member of the Italian Ordine dei Medici (Province of Bari)
3. Professional history
 2001-2002: High school diploma (classical studies) with full marks (100/100) at the high school “Cirillo” in Bari.
 2007-2010: Internship, Neurological University Clinic, Policlinico Hospital, Bari, Italy. She worked in the tertiary referral centre for movement disorders and botulinum toxin therapy (Prof.G. Defazio).
 2007-2008: Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bari, Italy, achieving the following grade: 110/110, Honors and academic commendation, and discussing an experimental thesis entitled:“ Lower limb involvement in adult-onset primary dystonia: frequency and clinical features”, then published on “European Journal of Neurology” (Supervisor prof. G. Defazio).
 July 2009: Qualifying examination with full marks (270/270).
 From May 2010: Trainee in Neurology, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Italy. She works in the tertiary referral centre for movement disorders and botulinum toxin therapy (Prof. G.Defazio) and at the Centre for Cerebrovascular Diseases, at the 2nd Neurological Clinic of the same University.
4. Other appointments and affiliations
 From 2010 Member of The Italian Society for Neurology
 From 2011 Member of The Movement Disorder Society
5. Awards:
 March 2010: Degree’s award “Roberto De Salvia”, University of Bari
 October 2010: Prize for the best poster (entitled “AGE AT ONSET IS AN INDEPENDENT RISK FACTOR FOR SPREAD IN PRIMARY ADULT-ONSET DYSTONIA”) during the LIMPE Congress (Italian League for Parkinson’s Disease, Extrapyramidal Disorders and Dementia).
 October 2010: “2010 Annual Meeting Travel Scholarship” for the Dystonia Coalition Second Annual Meeting.
JUNE 2011
6. Publications
Original peer-reviewed articles:
1. Martino D, Macerollo A, Abbruzzese G, Bentivoglio AR, Berardelli A, Esposito M, Fabbrini G, Girlanda P, Guidubaldi A, Liguori R, Liuzzi D, Marinelli L, Morgante F, Sabetta A, Santoro L, Defazio G. Lower limb involvement in adult-onset primary dystonia: frequency and clinical features. Eur J Neurol. 2010 Feb;17(2):242-6. Epub 2009 Sep 17.
2. Martino D, Liuzzi D, Macerollo A, Aniello MS, Livrea P, Defazio G. The phenomenology of the geste antagoniste in primary blepharospasm and cervical dystonia. Mov Disord. 2010 Mar 15;25(4):407-12.
3. Zambito Marsala S, Tinazzi M, Vitaliani R, Recchia S, Fabris F, Marchini C, Fiaschi A, Moretto G, Giometto B, Macerollo A, Defazio G. Spontaneous pain, pain threshold, and pain tolerance in Parkinson’s disease. J Neurol. 2011 Apr;258(4):627-33. Epub 2010 Nov 17.
4. Defazio G, Abbruzzese G, Aniello MS, Bloise M, Crisci C, Eleopra R, Fabbrini G, Girlanda P, Liguori R, Macerollo A, Marinelli L, Martino D, Morgante F, Santoro L, Tinazzi M, and Berardelli A. Environmental risk factors and clinical phenotype in familial and sporadic primary blepharospasm. Neurology. 2011 Aug 16;77(7):631-7. Epub 2011 Jul 20.
5. Martino D, Di Giorgio A, D’ambrosio E, Popolizio T, Macerollo A, Livrea P, Bertolino A, Defazio G. Cortical gray matter changes in primary blepharospasm: a voxel-based morphometry study. Mov Disord. 2011 Jun 29. doi: 10.1002/mds.23724. [Epub ahead of print

Presentations by Dr. Antonella Macerollo currently available on MultiWebcast.com
15th Congress of the European Federation of Neurological Societies

Severity of motor symptoms and site of pain in Parkinson\'sdisease
2011-09-10 - English - Poster Session 2: Movement disorders 2

Objectives: Pain occurring during the course of Parkinson’s disease (PD) may be heterogeneous in quality and body distribution. In a retrospective cohort study, we investigated the relationship, if any, between severity of PD and site of pain.
Patients and Methods: We...(more)