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Prof. Hania Szajewska M.D.

Hania Szajewska, MD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Paediatrics at the Medical University of Warsaw.

From 2014 until June 2019, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. Previously, Prof. Szajewska served as a member of the Council and then as the General Secretary of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN). She also served as the Secretary of the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition. Most recently (January 2019), she joined the Board of Directors of the International Scientitic Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics.

Prof. Szajewska has broad interests in paediatric nutrition but her research focuses on the effects of early dietary interventions on later outcomes, and the gut microbiota modifications such as with probiotics and/or prebiotics. She is or has been actively involved in several European Union-funded research projects.

She has co-authored more than 300 publications and 25 book chapters.