Antonio Siniscalchi

University/Organization: Annunziata Hospital of Cosenza

Country: Italy

 Biography

Dr Antonio Siniscalchi is a Medical Doctor, Clinical Specialist (Neurologist), Responsible of Rare Disease in Neurology and Responsible of Cerebrovascular disease and Neurosonology in the Department of Neurology and Stroke Unit “Annunziata” Hospital – Cosenza, Italy. He is adjunct professor at the Department of Pharmacology Department of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia”.
He is member of Scientific National Comitee of “Progress in Neuroscience” official bulletin of the Italian Society of Hospital Neurologists, Neurosurgeons and Neuroradiologists (S.N.O.) and Member of National Comitee of Italian National Society of Neurovascular Disease (SINV) and Editor in Chief of Newletter SINV. He is member of editorial board in various International Medical Journals. He is peer reviewer for Stroke and Neurology.
Since 2001 the is an expert in the cerebrovascular disease (TIA and Thrombolysis) and in the Neurosonology (Ecocolor doppler extracranial and intracranial) and he is an expert on intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator for the treatment of acute cerebral ischemia. He has, after training, online certification NIHSS for stroke scale of the Italian National Institutes of Health (University of Rome "La Sapienza”)
Dr Siniscalchi is author and co-author of scientific publications in neurology and neuropharmacology. Scientific publications have been cited by various authors in medical journals with impact factor and in the references of international scientific books. The first scientific publications arise from studies performed during a postdoctoral fellowship research in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University - Montreal (Canada). Recently, the researches have been conducted in collaborations with the Neurology Clinic, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Neurorehabilitation Hospital IRCCS "S. Lucia, Rome and the Department of Physiology, Laboratory of Neurophysiology University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Furthermore, the last scientific publications are collaborations between Department of Neuroscience, Neurology Division “Annunziata” Hospital – Cosenza with the Neurological Clinic of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and IRCCS Rehabilitation Hospital "S. Lucia, Rome and with the Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia".

 Research Interest

His research interests includes: Stroke; Epilepsy; Neuropharmacology (in particular Antiepileptic Drugs); Trans ed extracranial Color-Coded Duplexsonography