Dr. Athanasia Alexoudi is a Neurologist, having obtained by medical degree and PhD degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens, Greece, where she was also born and raised. She completed her Neurology Residency training at the “G. Gennimatas” Athens General Hospital in Greece. Upon completion of her residency, she pursued a master’s degree in Headache Medicine at “La Sapienza” University in Rome, Italy, and then a research fellowship in Deep Brain Stimulation in movement disorders at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in Germany under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. med. Günther Deuschl.  She subsequently completed her PhD that she was pursuing at the time through the University of Athens regarding the association of genes to oxidative stress, focusing on multiple sclerosis as an inflammatory model of a disease with neurodegenerative features. In 2013 she returned to Greece and joined the Neurosurgery Department at the University of Athens as a fellow where she leveraged her expertise in neuromodulation in assessing therapeutic interventions in people with neurodegenerative movement disorders and pain. Since 2020 she is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the same department.

In 2020, upon starting my final year as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Athens, I joined the Neurological Institute of Athens (NIA) as a part-time clinical instructor with plans for full-time integration this coming year towards developing the recently established Movement Disorders Center in materializing its clinical, research, educational, and health policy goals. As part of my research focus, I plan to combine the same department.