Juliana Gurgel

Prof. Juliana Gurgel, MD, Ph.D. is a Child Neurologist and Full Professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Brazil. She specialised in Neuromuscular Disorders and Mitochondria Diseases. She completed her neuromuscular fellow and PhD at Universidade de São Paulo in 2001 (USP). Subsequently, she held two post-doctoral fellows in Mitochondrial Diseases at Columbia University, in 2005 ( Prof. Salvatore Di Mauro) and 2013 (Prof. Michio Hirano). In 2002 she became Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and in 2007 she was responsible for the implementation and accreditation of the residency in Pediatric Neurology at the Hospital das Clínicas of UFMG, having been its coordinator until 2023, with the training of more than 20 residents in Child Neurology. She has experience in the areas of Pediatric Neurology and Genetics with research on neurogenetics, neuromuscular and mitochondrial diseases. Since 2009 she has supervised more than 20 post-graduate students and in 2023 she became the vice-head advisor of the postgraduate program in Child and Adolescent Health Sciences at UFMG. Furthermore, she has been a PI in different international clinical trials in the field of neuromuscular disorders, with more than 80 papers published. Currently, she is The President of the Brazilian Child Neurology Society (SBNI), a member of the Committee: “Myology Development across the World” in the World Muscle Society and a member of the ICNA Executive Board (2023-2025).