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She developed intensive collaboration with colleagues from all over the world and especially with colleagues from central and eastern European countries, in order to spread knowledge and skills and interchange of ideas. She participated as a lecturer at several ESO Summer Schools as well as at several RTCs, building new connections and friendships. Only working together, under WFN motto: There is no health, without brain health, we can be successful in the fight against brain diseases







Prof. Leontino Battistin, MD, PhD. Born in Fiume (actually Rijeka, Croatia), graduated in Medicine at the University of Padova Medical School in 1963; Specialist in Neurology in 1967. During the years 1967-1970 he was Research Fellow at the Institute for Neurochemistry, Columbia University, New York, USA.



Full Professor of Neurology from 1980 and then Director of the Department of Neurosciences of the Medical School of the University of Padova from 1989 to 2009. He was the Scientific Director of the Research Hospital for Neurorehabilitation, IRCCS San Camillo, Venice, from 2005 to 2014.



He has been member of the Executive Council of the Italian Society of Neurology and the President of the Italian Society for Parkinson's Disease; he was a member of the Executive Committee on Extrapyramidal Disorders, chaired by Melvin Yahr, and after by Donald Calne, and of the one on Dementia of the World Federation of Neurology and, in 2009, Chairman of the Research Group for Organization and Delivery of Neurological Services; he has been elected at the WCN in London Vice-President for Europe of the World Federation of Neurology for the years 2001-2005; also, he has been the President of the European Society for Clinical Neuropharmacology during the years 2000-2008; he is a member of numerous International Scientific Societies, and Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He has been also a member of the Editorial Board of international journals of neuroscience and clinical neurology.



He has organized various International Symposia on specific themes of neuroscience; he was the President of the 11th World Congress on Parkinson's Disease that was held for the first time in Italy, Rome, in 1994, and President of the 2nd World Congress on Neurorehabilitation held in Venice, in 2002, when the World Federation on Neurorehabilitation was founded; also, he has been the Honorary President of the XXV World Congress of Neurology held in Rome, Italy, in October 2021.



He has published more than 300 papers in various international and national journals and edited ten volumes on specific arguments of neurology; his main scientific interests have always been cerebral metabolism and function especially in degenerative diseases of the nervous system, like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, as well as in cerebrovascular diseases and in neurorehabilitation.



Assist. prof. Hrvoje Budincevic, MD, PhD, FEAN, FESO is a neurologist with subspecialisation in intensive care medicine and cerebrovascular diseases. He received MD degree in 2001. He works at the Sveti Duh University Hospital in Zagreb (Croatia) where he is Deputy Head of the Department of neurology and Head of Stroke and Intensive Care Unit. He finished the residency program in neurology in 2007, and he earned his PhD degree in 2014 with the thesis: Impact of anticoagulant therapy on the outcome in ischemic stroke patients with atrial fibrillation. After postdoctoral fellowship from 2015 to 2018 he became assistant professor of neurology at University of Osijek. During education he earned two subspecialisations: in intensive care medicine (2012) and cerebrovascular diseases (2018). He is consultant neurologist (primarius) from 2018. From 2015 he is a secretary of the International Institute for Brain Health. From 2017. he was elected for the President of the Croatian Stroke Society. In 2017 he became a Fellow of the European Stroke Organisation, where was a member of Social Media Committee and a national delegate for the ESO-EAST project. In 2020 he became a Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology. Last several years he is one of course directors of the Summer Stroke School - Healthy Lifestyle and Prevention of Stroke and Other Brain Impairments in Dubrovnik (Croatia) (www.croatianstrokesociety.org) and a member of the Organizing Committee of the MIND & BRAIN - International Neuropsychiatric Congress in Pula (www.pula-cong.com). His research interest is stroke prevention and treatment. He is an investigator in several scientific and clinical projects. He is a full member of Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences since 2023.