Katarzyna Wroblewska-Seniuk, Assistant Professor at the Department of Newborns’ Infectious Diseases at Poznan University of Medical Studies, POLAND

Katarzyna Wroblewska-Seniuk is Assistant Professor at the Department of Newborns’ Infectious Diseases at Poznan University of Medical Studies, Poland, where she has been working since 2002.  She is a specialist in pediatrics and neonatology. Her main topics of interest are: Perinatal complications in newborns of diabetic mothers, hypoglycemia and hyperinsulinemia in newborns. Risk factors for hearing deficit in newborns and neonatal hearing screening.

She received in 2010 the team award from the President of Poznan University of Medical Studies for the paper “Long-term effects of diabetes during pregnancy on the offspring” published in Pediatric Diabetes. In 2018 she received the habilitation degree for the cycle of four thematically consistent publications on hearing screening in term and preterm newborns, entitled “Hearing screening as a tool in the diagnosis of hearing impairment in term and preterm newborns.” She also participated as an investigator in several scientific grants, amongst others: IRDS - KL4-02 – multicenter, randomized, double-blinded phase III clinical trial on new synthetic surfactant containing SP-B reminiscent peptide (Surfaxin) and CLA-CC10-02 – multicenter, randomized, double-blinded phase II clinical trial on recombinant human Clara 10 protein (protein CC10) in newborns with respiratory distress syndrome. In 2003 she received the Post-Doctoral Fellowship at The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Tx, USA having worked for  one year in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.