Claudia Altamura

Claudia Altamura, M.D., Ph.D., works as a neurologist at Fondazione Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome since 2008. She is part of the Headache and Neurosonology Unit. She graduated from Medical School in 2002, completed the residency program in 2007, and obtained her Ph.D. in Science of Neuroplasticity and Neurofunctional recovery in 2011 at Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome. In 2020, she concluded her master's degree in Stroke management at Tor Vergata University. She took Research electives at the Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (Freiburg, Germany) in 2007, and at Kennedy Kriger Institute, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) in 1999. She also took an Externship in Clinical Neurology, at the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, USA) in 2001. She has been an investigator in many clinical trials. She attended a Good Clinical Practice course at Campus Bio-Medico University in June 2017. She was awarded for the best Project for Migraine Patients (Novartis Prize) in 2020, for the best poster European Headache Federation Congress 2017 and for the best Oral communication at Stresa Headache 2019. She authored over 100 manuscripts published in impacted international journals (H-index Scopus 28) including Brain, Neurology, and Stroke. Her main research topics are headaches, vascular diseases with the main focus on cerebral hemodynamics studies with ultrasound. She serves as associated Editor for Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. She is a member of Italian Society of Neurology (SIN) International Headache Society, of the Italian Neurological Association for the research on headaches (ANIRCEF) and of the Italian Stroke Association (ISA).