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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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Harmonized Data Quality Indicators Maintain Data Quality in Long-Term Safety Studies Using Multiple Sclerosis Registries/Data Sources: Experience from the CLARION Study (2024)

Hillert, Jan; Butzkueven, Helmut; Magyari, Melinda; Wergeland, Stig; Moore, Nicholas; Soilu-Hänninen, Merja; Ziemssen, Tjalf; Kuhle, Jens; Pontieri, Luigi; Forsberg, Lars; Aarseth, Jan Harald; Zhu, Chao; Sicignano, Nicholas; Mushnikov, Vasili; Bezemer, Irene; Sabidó, Meritxell
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Proportion and characteristics of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis in five European registries using objective classifiers (2023)

Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical
Forsberg L, Spelman T, Klyve P, Manouchehrinia A, Ramanujam R, Mouresan E, Drahota J, Horakova D, Joensen H, Pontieri L, Magyari M, Ellenberger D, Stahmann A, Rodgers J, Witts J, Middleton R, Nicholas R, Bezlyak V, Adlard N, Hach T, Lines C, Vukusic S, Soilu-Hänninen M, van der Walt A, Butzkueven H, Iaffaldano P, Trojano M, Glaser A, Hillert J
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Miksi MS-tauti yleistyy? (2022)

Duodecim
Sipilä Jussi O, Pirttisalo Anna-Leena, Sumelahti Marja-Liisa, Soilu-Hänninen Merja
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))