Dr Cubo is a Movement Disorders Neurologist. She completed her fellowship in Movement Disorders at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL, USA. She has been able to create the movement disorders unit at the hospital Universitario Burgos, in Spain, and trains young neurologists in movement disorders. She has been involved in different research networks including the Scientific and Bioethics Advisory Committee of the European Huntington´s disease Network, the Parkinson´s disease longitudinal network in Spain, Telemedicine Study Group of the International Parkinson´s disease and Movement Disorder Society, member of the MDS Rating Scales Committee, and past member of the Africa task force. She is well published and widely recognized as an expert in clinical rating scales, clinical manifestations of movement disorders, neuroepidemiology, telemedicine novel therapies for Movement Disorders including Parkinson´s disease and Huntington´s disease. Her publication record to date includes 228 peer-reviewed manuscripts in leading journals in the field including Movement Disorders, Lancet Neurology, and Neurology. She is currently the principal investigator of a research project funded by the Spanish Government targeted identify early biomarkers in prodromal Parkinson´s disease and the influence of the microbioma in pharmacological treatment effects in Huntington´s disease.

To date she has been collaborating in several projects with other members of the European HD Network addressing how environmental factors such as nutrition and exercise can impact on the progression of HD.

Her vision as a neurologist and researcher are to improve patients quality of life of patients and caregivers, and to bring the opportunity to young researchers from underserved areas to have the opportunity to develop their capabilities by creating an international research group. She would like to promote multidisciplinary care for patients with HD, delivering focused education about HD in other medical specialties involved in HD care such as family doctors, medical internists, and allied health professionals.