Dr Flavia Niccolini
Job title
Consultant
Specialties
Professional background
Dr Niccolini is an experienced neurologist with special interest in Movement Disorders. She completed my CCT in 2012 at the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry of Sapienza, a well-known Italian University. Dr Niccolini has spent the last year of her specialty training in Uk at Charing Cross Hospital and since then she has been working for several UK-based Trusts. She has a broad experience in Movement Disorders and Botulinum Toxin. She has developed and established the Parkinson鈥檚 service at 半岛体育 Park Hospital and worked cross-sites at Wexham Park Hospital to develop PD related guidelines for the Service and introduce the use of PKG in people with Parkinson's.
Dr Niccolini has also been extensively involved in research and she is the Neurology Research Lead at 半岛体育 Park Hospital. She has received several international awards for her research work such as the Henry N. Wagner Jr., MD, Best Paper Award, SNMMI, the SNMMI Brain Imaging Council Young Investigator Award. She has a broad experience in teaching.
Research interests
Parkinson's disease, Movement Disorders and Dystonia.
Dr Niccolini has been the PI of several interventional and observational PD studies such as: Trial of Ondansetron as a Parkinson鈥檚 Hallucinations Treatment - TOP-HAT, Antidepressants Trial in Parkinson's Disease (ADepT-PD):A Randomised Placebo- Controlled Trial on the effectiveness of Escitalopram and Nortriptyline on Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson鈥檚 disease and genetic studies related to Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) and other genes in patients with Alzheimer鈥檚 and Parkinson鈥檚.