Our Clinicians
Our Clinicians
Dr Elena Makovac
Elena Makovac is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology. She works at King’s College Hospital as a Clinical Psychologist, specializing in neuropsychological assessments and rehabilitation. Elena provides specialist outpatient and inpatient diagnostic assessments for patients with a wide range of neurological conditions, including traumatic brain injuries, stroke, brain tumours, multiple sclerosis, dementia, and epilepsy. She also specializes in Parkinson’s Disease, a complex condition where psychological and physical factors interact in multifaceted ways.
Elena dedicates her time, both as a clinician and scientist, to investigating mind-body interactions in affective disorders, chronic pain, and neuropsychological conditions. The interplay between emotions, pain, and cognition is the central focus of her clinical and scientific work. These conditions often overlap in the patients she treats, and her unique expertise allows her to assess and treat these issues in a holistic manner.
Elena has received numerous awards, including the EFIC-Grunenthal Award for her projects investigating the interaction between the autonomic nervous system and chronic pain.
Dr Lucia Ricciardi
Lucia Ricciardi is a consultant neurologist, with a specialist interest in movement disorders, working at St George’s University Hospital in London. She has extensive clinical experience in diagnosing and managing Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders from newly diagnosed to complex and advanced cases (including people with infusional therapies and Deep Brain Stimulation). She has always looked at Parkinson’s disease as a multifaceted and polyhedric disease which requires a multidisciplinary approach but also an active empowerment of people living with PD (both the person having the disease and the family and friends around them). She has a strong interest and experience in physical and psychological rehabilitation with a variety of approaches ranging from one to one, group or on-line delivered strategies.
Dr Ricciardi is also a Senior Lecturer at St George’s University of London, her research is focused on cognitive, psychiatric and emotional dysfunction in patients with movement disorders, especially those with Parkinson’s disease. She has recently been awarded a MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnerships (CARP) Award with the University of Oxford.
We have an extensive network of collaborating partners including neurologists, neuropsychiatrists and neuroradiographers. Where appropriate, our patients will be referred for additional assessments to thoroughly explore the origin of cognitive problems.