Davide Pareyson is a Clinical Neurologist working at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C.Besta (INCB) of Milan, Italy, where he is currently Head of the Rare Neurodegenerative and Neurometabolic Diseases Unit; He also serves as Chief of the Functional Department of Neurodegenerative and Rare Neurological Diseases.

Professor Pareyson’s main interest in clinical research are on hereditary and acquired peripheral neuropathies and motor neuronopathies, inherited neurological disorders and rare diseases. He performed studies on phenotype-genotype correlation, clinical findings, electrophysiology, neuropathology of hereditary neuropathies (particularly Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease – CMT – and related neuropathies, but also amyloid neuropathy) and other neurogenetic disorders including spinal and bulbar muscle atrophy (SBMA), hereditary spastic paraplegias, hereditary ataxias, genetic leukodystrophies.

Professor Pareyson has been working on the development of outcome measures for hereditary neuropathies and other rare diseases and has coordinated and participated in several clinical trials and natural history studies in inherited and acquired neuropathies over the past 10 years internationally.

Finally, Professor Pareyson is the Coordinator of the Italian National Registries of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and of SpinoBulbar Muscular Atrophy (www.registronmd.it), and participates as local PI in the TTR-related amyloidosis Italian National Registry.