Gabriela Figueiredo Pucci, MD

PGY-2 Resident

Biographical Sketch

Gabriela Figueiredo Pucci completed her medical school at Unicamp and her Neurology residency at Unesp, both in Brazil. She is enthusiastic about medical education in Neurology, especially in the development of clinical reasoning skills. Currently, she also runs her own web page, @Neudrawlogy, a free open access page that holds infographics in Neurology and works with The Clinical Problem Solvers; this page gets over 200,000 views worldwide. She also runs the neurology discussions at Elabore Medicina, a free platform that she founded where she discusses neurology cases with Brazilian medical students. Outside of neurology, she enjoys traveling, cooking and baking. 

Education & Training

  • Universidade Estadual de Sao Paulo (UNESP), Botucatu, Brazil, 2021
  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, 2017 

Specialized Areas Clinical, Research and/or Educational Interest

  • Medical Education, Clinical Reasoning, General Neurology

Selected Recent Publications

Pucci GF, Fontes RS, Roque RT, Nobrega VC, Berkowitz AL. Seizures and Headaches in a 34-Year-Old Woman With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Neurohospitalist. 2022 Apr;12(2):301-306. doi: 10.1177/19418744211057464. Epub 2022 Jan 11. PMID: 35419124; PMCID: PMC8995601. 

Pucci GF, Akita J, Berkowitz AL. Clinical-Radiologic Dissociation in Post-traumatic Syringomyelia. World Neurosurg. 2021 Sep;153:9-10. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.06.063. Epub 2021 Jun 18. PMID: 34153481. 

Burns S, Harmel A, Miller S, Pucci GF, Greco J, Pulley M, Pizzi M. Clinical Challenges of Acute Porphyria in the Young Adult. Neurohospitalist. 2022 Apr;12(2):377-382. doi: 10.1177/19418744211073029. Epub 2022 Feb 9. PMID: 35419127; PMCID: PMC8995621.