Natalia Szejko

In 2014, she completed her doctoral studies at the Medical University of Warsaw. She has participated in a number of research internships, including a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine in the United States or an internship at the Medical University of Hannover, where she developed her skills in the research group of Prof. Kirsten Mueller-Vahl.

She is currently a final-year resident in the Department of Neurology at the University Clinical Centre WUM, where she will be awarded a specialist degree in neurology in November 2022.

She is a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the European Association for Tourette Syndrome Research and co-author of the latest European guidelines for the treatment of tics. She has more than 50 publications in neurology and more than 40 articles on the relationship between medicine and art with a total IF of 213.298. 

She has received numerous awards and honours for her achievements, including: Scientific Award of the Polityka Weekly (2019), Kosciuszko Foundation Scientific Fellowship (2019), Young Scientist Grant of the Warsaw Medical University (2020), Clinical Research Scholarship awarded by the American Academy of Neurology and American Brain Foundation (2022) and Young Investigator Award of the European Stroke Organisation (2022). 

Her interests also include demyelinating diseases, particularly multiple sclerosis and optic neuritis and myelitis, and epilepsy. She is also interested in personalised medicine using new technologies such as population genetics, advanced cybernetic algorithms and machine learning to plan individually tailored treatment for each patient, which is used at the Neurosphera Centre for Neurology, Epilepsy and Psychiatry.