UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA
D IPARTIMENTO
DI
S CIENZE N EUROLOGICHE
E DEL
C OMPORTAMENTO
Centro Ricerche per la Diagnosi, Terapia e Prevenzione
del Neurohandicap e delle Malattie Neurologiche Rare
Scuola di Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Neurologiche Applicate
Scuola di Specializzazione in Neurologia
Direttore: Prof. Antonio Federico
Mercoledì 9 settembre ore 11.30 nell’aula A24 del Polo Scientifico di San Miniato
si terrà:
“Novel Leucoencephalopathies”
Prof. Sakkubai NAIDU
Professor, Department of Neurology and Paediatrics
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, USA
La S.V. è invitata a partecipare
Prof. A.Federico
Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e del Comportamento – Università degli Studi di Siena
Viale Bracci, 2 - 53100 Siena
Tel +39-0577-585763-60; Fax: +39-0577-40327
Email: [email protected]
UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA
D IPARTIMENTO
DI
S CIENZE N EUROLOGICHE
E DEL
C OMPORTAMENTO
Centro Ricerche per la Diagnosi, Terapia e Prevenzione
del Neurohandicap e delle Malattie Neurologiche Rare
Scuola di Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Neurologiche Applicate
Scuola di Specializzazione in Neurologia
Direttore: Prof. Antonio Federico
SakkuBai Naidu, M.D.
Director of the Rett Syndrome Research Project, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Dr. SakkuBai Naidu is a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also a Professor in the Departments of
Neurology and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Naidu received her undergraduate and medical training at Madras Medical College in India, graduating in 1962. She served
internships and residencies in Pediatrics at hospitals in Madras and in Brooklyn before accepting a fellowship in Pediatric
Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. She worked in hospitals in Chicago at the University of Illinois and
Loyola University in Maywood, IL. In 1983 she trained in Neonatal EEG/Neurology at Port Royal Hospital in Paris. She came to
Hopkins in 1985 as a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Scholar. Dr. Naidu works as a pediatric neurologist at KKI, where she
directs KKI’s Neurogenetics Unit.
Dr. Naidu is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, Child Neurology Society, American Neurological Association,
International Child Neurology Society, Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders, Society for Neuroscience, Neurological Society of
India, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e del Comportamento – Università degli Studi di Siena
Viale Bracci, 2 - 53100 Siena
Tel +39-0577-585763-60; Fax: +39-0577-40327
Email: [email protected]