Dr. Elisabetta Burchi is the Head of Research at Parasym, the creators of Nuropod. She is a physician, psychiatrist and neuromodulation expert who has led 100+ research collaborations with institutions including Harvard and UCLA, resulting in 50+ peer-reviewed studies. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Florence and former post-doctoral fellow at Montefiore / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she also holds an MBA from INSEAD. Her work — published in The Lancet Psychiatry, Neurology and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience — underpins the science behind Nuropod, the most studied non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation device.
Ear-based stimulation has the potential to provide health systems with a scalable, low-risk tool to address some of today’s most pressing challenges: rising rates of anxiety and depression, persistent post-viral syndromes and the long-term burden of stress-related chronic conditions.