Professor Celia Oreja-Guevara, Vice Chair of Neurology at University Hospital San Carlos and Professor of Neurology at Complutense University, Madrid, has a distinguished career in neurology. She obtained her medical degree from the University Complutense of Madrid and completed her PhD in Neuroimmunology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology, Munich, Germany. She then completed a residency in the Department of Neurology at the University of Bochum, Germany, followed by a 1-year fellowship in Neuroimaging at the University Hospital San Raffaele.
Professor Oreja-Guevara’s main areas of research interest include family planning, the use of optical coherence tomography, symptomatic therapy, menopause, neuromyelitis optica (NMO), clinical and neuroimaging correlations in MS, and the evaluation of new drugs for the treatment of MS and NMO.
As an investigator, Professor Oreja-Guevara has served as a principal investigator in several clinical trials and as a member of various international steering committees
Besides her clinical and research endeavors, Professor Oreja-Guevara holds leadership roles in several neurology-focused organizations and academic societies. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Multiple Sclerosis Panel of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), President of PARADIGMS, and as a representative for the Spanish MS organizations on the International Medical and Scientific Board (IMSB) of the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF). She has also previously served as an expert for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS), highlighting her longstanding contributions to the field of neurology.
Country: Spain
Affiliation: Vice Chair of Neurology at University Hospital San Carlos and Professor of Neurology at Complutense University, Madrid
