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Merja
Soilu-Hänninen
Docent, Department of Clinical Medicine
MD, PhD

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Areas of expertise

Clinical neurology
neuroimmunology
multiple sclerosis risk factors, prognostic factors and treatment

Biography

MD, University of Turku 1988

PhD, University of Turku, Department of Virology, Immunobiology of central nervous system virus infections 1996

Postdoctoral Fellow, Development and Neurobiology Group, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia 1997-1999

Specialist Degree in Neurology 2001

Adjuct Professor of Clinical Neurology 2008

Inverstigator in several clinical MS trials

Chair of the Finnish MS registry 2016-

General Neurology Section Head, Turku University Hospital, Division of Clinical Neurosciences 2017-

Teaching

Course of medical pedagogics 2011-2012

Supervisor of several PhD student

Research

Multiple sclerosis risk factors, prognostic factors and epidemiology.

Imaging of brain atrophy in multiple sclerosis.

Publications

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Multiple sclerosis in Finland 2018—Data from the national register (2019)

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
Sini M. Laakso, Matias Viitala, Hanna Kuusisto, Taneli Sarasoja, Päivi Hartikainen, Sari Atula, Pentti J. Tienari, Merja Soilu-Hänninen
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

MS-tauti ja kognitiivinen toimintakyky (2019)

Duodecim
Eija Rosti-Otajärvi, Merja Soilu-Hänninen, Hanna Kuusisto, Juhani Ruutiainen, Päivi Hämäläinen
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))