Barbara Plecko (Swiss Showcase)

Prof. Dr. med. Barbara Plecko  studied Medicine at the University of Graz, Austria, where she earned her degree as a medical doctor in 1985. She continued her medical training in general medicine and pediatrics at the University Hospital Graz. In 1995, she was appointed senior consultant in Child Neurology and Inborn Errors of Metabolism at the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University Graz. From 1999 to 2001 she worked as a research fellow in the Metabolic Laboratory at the Department of Pediatrics at the University Hospital Vienna, Austria. She earned her habilitation from the Medical University Graz, in 2003. In 2004, she became the head of Child Neurology and Service for Inborn Errors of Metabolism at the University Children’s Hospital Graz, and in 2007 worked as an Associate Professor at the Division of Biochemical Diseases at Children’s and Women’s, Vancouver, UBC – joint neurometabolic clinic, Canada. Since 2011, Prof. Plecko is the head of Child Neurology at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland and professor of Child Neurology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her main field of interest in clinical research is in neurometabolism, with a focus on pyridoxine dependent seizures.

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