Dr. Maria Teresa Pellecchia is associate professor of neurology at the University of Salerno, Italy, chief of the Unit of Experimental Neurology at the University Hospital San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d’Aragona in Salerno, Italy and co-chair of the MoDiMSA study Group of the Movement Disorder Society. She is the recipient of a 2013 grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation (project title: Insulin-like growth factor-1 and DAT imaging as biomarkers of early cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease). She has received research funding from the MSA Coalition, Italian Ministry of Health and the Italian Regulatory Drug Agency (AIFA), and she is the author of 180 peer-reviewed papers published in international journals.