Coffee With You

This closed meeting is your chance to talk and ask questions about different career pathways.

Join the EAN Resident and Research Fellow Section (RRFS) for an engaging and exclusive Coffee With You session during our onsite congress, where you will have the opportunity to connect with an esteemed expert in the field and fellow peers to discuss different topics.

For 2026, the EAN Programme Committee has selected What should residents know about the autonomic nervous system? as a topic.

Whether you’re considering a career in academia, clinical practice, or research, this is your chance to engage in candid conversations, ask burning questions and chart your course towards professional fulfillment.

Participation in the Coffee With You session is open to all RRFS members attending the EAN Congress.
Simply drop by the Members’ Lounge during the scheduled time, grab a cup of coffee, and join the conversation.

Moderator: Miguel Miranda

 

Alessandra Fanciulli is Associate Professor of Neurology and Director of the Dysautonomia Center at the Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on autonomic failure and other non-motor symptoms in parkinsonian and related neurodegenerative disorders. She coordinates an FWF-funded research consortium on medical decision-making in multiple system atrophy (MSA) and leads studies on pain in people living with MSA. 

Prof. Fanciulli serves as President of the European Federation of Autonomic Societies and of the Bischof Karl Golser Foundation for Research in Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes. She chairs the MSA Study Group of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society and the Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes Disease Group of the European Reference Network for Rare Neurological Disorders. For the European Academy of Neurology, she coordinates the forthcoming guidelines on the symptomatic treatment of atypical parkinsonian syndromes. In 2020, she was awarded the Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Award by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.