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REETTA KäLVIäINEN

Professor

Chair of Neurology, University of Eastern Finland

Director of Kuopio Epilepsy Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Member of EpiCARE ERN

Chair of Board, Neurocenter Finland


Reetta Kälviäinen is the Full Professor and Chair of Neurology in the University of Eastern Finland and the Director of the Kuopio Epilepsy Center in the Kuopio University Hospital. Her special research interest is clinical epileptology including identifying biomarkers of seizure activity, epileptogenesis, progression, and drug-resistancy in cohorts of newly diagnosed and drug-resistant chronic patients. These aspects of scientific projects are combined with therapeutic neuropharmacological interventions. She serves in the steering group of the European Reference Network for rare and complex epilepsies EpiCARE (of which Kuopio Epilepsy Center is a member) and co-chairs the Epilepsy Scientific Panel of the European Academy of Neurology. She is the chair of the steering group for the Establishment Phase of Neurocenter Finland.

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School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine

Email

reetta.kalviainen@uef.fi

Phone

+358 40 583 9249

Keywords

biomarkers clinical epilepsy cognition epilepsy epilepsy surgery epileptogenesis genetics neurocenter Finland neuroimaging neurology neuroscience

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