Valentina Leta is a neurologist currently working as a PhD research fellow at the Parkinson’s Foundation Centre of Excellence, King’s College Hospital and King’s College London, and as a movement disorders consultant neurologist at the King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London (UK). Valentina graduated in Medicine from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2013 successfully defending the thesis entitled ‘Skin-nerve α-synuclein deposits: a biomarker for Parkinson’s disease (PD)’. She then completed her clinical training in Neurology at the University of Milan (Italy) with the thesis ‘Intrajejunal levodopa infusion combined with Catechol-O-Methyl-Transferase-inhibition: a new therapeutic strategy in advanced PD’.
Valentina is interested in both motor and non-motor aspects of movement disorders, with a focus on autonomic dysfunction in PD. She is currently working on her PhD project on gastrointestinal dysfunction, inflammation and gut dysbiosis in PD under the supervision of Prof Chaudhuri. Valentina is currently Principal Investigator of the Sunovion CTH-302 and CTH-301 trials at King’s College Hospital and sub-investigator of other clinical trials on PD.
She has been invited as a faculty member at national and international conferences, she is author of over 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals and a teacher at King’s College London. Valentina is a member of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (IPMDS), the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), the Italian Society of Neurology (SIN), and the LIMPE-DISMOV academy. She is also Junior Member Representative of the IPMDS Non-motor-PD-study group (NMPDSG) steering committee, a co-coordinator of the IPMDS-NMPDSG and of the themed subgroup ‘Autonomic dysfunction’ of the IPMDS-NMPDSG, and she has been recently selected for the IPMDS-LEAP Program 2021.
