Editorial introductions

Abstract

Listen

Translate article

Current Opinion in Neurology was launched in 1988. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of neurology is divided into 14 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Section Editors for this issue. Section Editors Gerard SaidGerard SaidGérard Said is Consultant in Neurology at the Hospital of La Salpêtrière in Paris, France after retiring from Chairmanship of the Service of Neurology of the University Hospital of Bicêtre, France. In 1977–1978, he was a research fellow in the Department of Neurology of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He became Professor of Neurology in 1976, having previously been Assistant Professor at the University Hospital of Bicêtre and resident in neurology in Paris between 1968 and 1972. Professor Said was co-founder of the European Neurological Society (ENS) in 1986 and has been Secretary-General of the society since then, organising the yearly ENS congress since 1988. He is now Past-President of the ENS. Starting in 2006, he is Director of the Research Group on Neuromuscular Disorders of the World Federation of Neurology, and between 1998 and 2000 he was President of the Peripheral Nerve Society (PNS). Professor Said's main field of investigation is disorders of the peripheral nervous system, diabetic neuropathy, vasculitic neuropathy and infectious neuropathies. He graduated from the Medical School of the University in Paris in 1971. Sabrina SacconiSabrina SacconiSabrina Sacconi is Assistant Professor in Neurology, working in Neuromuscular Diseases Specialized Center of Nice University Hospital, France. She graduated from the University of Pavia Medical School, in Italy in 1997. She completed her residency in neurology at the University of Modena, Italy in 2002. During residency, in 2000–2002, she participated on the research fellow program in the Merritt Research Center, Department of Neurology of the Columbia University, New York, USA, and worked mainly on genetic of mitochondrial diseases. Starting from 2004, she had a permanent position as a Neurologist in Nice University Hospital. She developed clinical and basic research on neuromuscular diseases and contributed in creating the Neuromuscular Diseases Specialized Center for the diagnosis and management of rare neuromuscular disorders. At the same time, she obtained two Master degrees in Myology and in Peripheral Nervous System disorders at the University Pierre and Marie Curie and Paris 2 in Paris, France in 2006 and 2007, and a PhD in biology and cell physiology in 2008. At present, Sabrina Sacconi is the coordinator of a Research Group on Neuromuscular Disorders at the CNRS UMR 6543, at the University of Nice and coordinator of the clinical activity on neuromuscular diseases in Nice University Hospital. Her main fields of investigation are myopathy and neurogenetic disorders, and more specifically, she works of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy physiopathology, genetic of mitochondrial diseases and cell therapy for muscular dystrophies.