Alba Paris Alemany

Biography:

Dr. Alba Paris-Alemany, MD, PT, Ph.D. is an Associate professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her expertise is orofacial and craniofacial pain, and craniomandibular and vestibular disorders. She has done clinical practice for more than 14 years in that specialized field at FisioCranioClinic, Madrid. She has been teaching in pre-graduate and post-graduate programs of Physical Therapy since 2013 and now continues her teaching at the Complutense University of Madrid. She belongs to the Research Group Motion in Brains where she has developed most part of her research. Her research streams are related to chronic pain management, movement representation, craniofacial pain, temporomandibular disorders, and dizziness. She has published more than 50 scientific articles in indexed international journals. She usually peer-reviews and has edited two special issues. She is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), and secretary of the Physical Therapy group at the Spanish Society of Pain (SED). In addition, she is a member of the teaching team at the Institute of Neuroscience and Craniofacial Pain (INDCRAN) in Spain, a post-graduate school that offers courses for physical therapists on the topic of cervico-craniofacial pain and disorders.