Gianni FRANCO

Neurologist, Chairman of EplC Ensemble pour le Cerveau, Vice-Chairman of the Belgian Brain Council, Professor of Neuropathology at HENALLUX (Haute Ecole de Namur Liège Luxembourg), Head of the Neurology Department at CHU UCL Namur Dinant, Chairman of the Association Parkinson francophone belge.
As a specialist in Parkinson’s disease, he has a particular interest in the preventive approach and the early detection of the signs of this disease and its complications, advocating a broad, multidisciplinary, synergistic approach between healthcare professionals and patients and their family carers.
Early detection and management of falls, swallowing disorders, confusion, sleep disorders, and inadequate compliance with drug treatments would avoid increasing the burden of brain diseases, which is borne mainly by the patient and his or her family. To this end, complementary non-medicinal approaches are proving to be highly effective, even if their mode of action sometimes seems unclear. And good management of Artificial Intelligence should enable us to open up the future to integrative medicine.
He recently recalled a number of epidemiological studies showing the impact of the environment and pollution on the onset and aggravation of many diseases. He is also interested in migraines, sleep disorders, dementia, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy and their impact on daily life.