Prof. Elisa Maria Fazzi is the Director of the Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit at ASST Spedali Civili in Brescia and Full Professor of Child Neuropsychiatry at the University of Brescia. She is the President of the Italian Society of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry since November 2021 and she is a member of the Technical Table on Mental Health of the Ministry of Health. She was President of the SENP (Societe Europeenne de Neurologie Pediatrique) in the period 2018-2020. She is the author of more than 270 articles published in indexed journals. Her main scientific interests include neurology and psychiatry in the early years of life and early intervention, complex disabilities, particularly cerebral palsy, neurodevelopmental disorders, follow-up of premature infants, rare pediatric diseases, and pediatric neuro-ophthalmology, especially on CVI. She participated in several international projects and recently won a Horizon 2024 grant as PI and coordinator for VIPPSTAR, a project involving 18 research groups at the national and international level. She is a founding member and Scientific Director of IALCA (Italian Association for Congenital Leber’s Amaurosis) and IAGSA (International Association for Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome).