Parisa Hajjari Zhao
About our researcher Parisa Hajjari Zhao
About Parisa Hajjari Zhao
Parisa Hajjari Zhao is a specialist in paediatric and adolescent medicine. Since 2022, she has worked as a specialist at the Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine Clinic (BUM) in Kungälv, where she meets children and young people with various paediatric conditions. Prior to this, she completed her residency focusing on outpatient care, serving at Queen Silvia's Children's Hospital, North Älvsborg County Hospital (NÄL), and BUM Kungälv. She started her doctoral studies at the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre in 2022 and combines this with her clinical work at BUM Kungälv.
Research interests
Parisa has always been interested in the field of neuroinflammation, and her scientific work during her residency focused on autoimmune encephalitis in children treated at Queen Silvia's Children's Hospital. During her residency, she also began research at the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre and became part of the team studying the conditions PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections) and PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome). Her doctoral work now has the title “Diagnosis and treatment of PANS”. This work includes describing demographic factors and the onset of illness in the patient group, as well as searching for biomarkers, signs of neuroinflammation in MRI scans of the brain, and studying whether intravenous immunoglobulin can be an effective treatment.
Funding
- Adlerbertska stipendiestiftelsen
