Bianca E Barcelo

Bianca E Barcelo, MD serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, where she maintains an active clinical practice focused on outpatient neurology with specialization in headache disorders and facial pain management.

Her primary research and clinical interests center on headache medicine, migraine pathophysiology, and facial pain syndromes, with growing expertise in neurological complications of viral infections as demonstrated by her 2023 co-authored research on Long COVID manifestations. She administers Botox therapy and facial nerve blocks as part of her interventional neurology practice and maintains active membership in the American Headache Society since 2022.

Her scholarly contribution in 2023 examined the critical relationship between acute COVID-19 severity and subsequent neurological symptoms, establishing important patterns in post-viral neurological conditions that bridge infectious disease, neuroimmunology, and clinical neurology with significant implications for public health and patient care strategies.