Juliana Gurgel

Dr. Juliana Gurgel Giannetti

She is Child Neurologist and Full Professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Brazil. She specialized in Neuromuscular Disorders and Mitochondrial 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 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. Since 2023, she has been the vice-head advisor of the postgraduate program in Child and Adolescent Health Sciences at UFMG (period of 2023-2024) and she has supervised of more than 25 post-graduate students. Furthermore, she has been a principal investigator (PI) in different international clinical trials in the field of neuromuscular disorders, with more than 80 published papers.
Currently, she is the President of the Brazilian Child Neurology Society (SBNI), member of the Committee: “Myology Development across the World” of the World Muscle Society and member of the ICNA Executive Board (2023-2025). In the last year she has been coordinator of the SMA5q newborn screening program in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.