Scientific degree: MD
Scientific position: assistant
Department: Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Feeding Disorders and Pediatrics
OrcID No: 0000-0001-5248-1246
Biography:
- employee of Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Feeding Disorders and Pediatrics since 2009
- specialist in pediatrics, specializing in gastric gastroenterology
- involved in clinical, scientific and didactic activities
- member of a multidisciplany team taking care of patiens with feeding disorders
- works at the Nutritional Clinic for patients fed via nasogastric tube or gastrostomy in the home enteral nutrition program (HEN)
- prepared, together with a Polish Society of Pediaric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (PTGHiZDZ) working group, position paper of pediatric enteral nutrition in Poland
- author and co-author of many publications, including 10 published in magazines with Impact Factor, in three of them she is the first author
- laureate of the competition for the best scientific work related to nutrition and clinical titled: “Multicenter, prospective randomized trial assessing tolerance and safety of early enteral feeding in children after PEG procedure by endoscopy”
- laureate of CMHI scientific prize in the young scientist category for the work published in 2017 titled “Early Onset of Wilson Disease: Diagnostic Challenges”
- experience in creation and realization of scientific research
- in 2015-2017 – principal investigator in the multicenter project tilted: “Evaluation of tolerance and safety of early enteral nutrition in children after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy placement”
- project principal of the scientific grant of the NUTRICIA Foundation:“Impact of the gut-brain hormonal axis and enteric peptides in the development of food neophobia in children with genetically determined hypersensitivity to the bitter taste”
- performs endoscopic examination in pediatric patients
Qualifications and trainings
- graduated in pediatrics, pediatric gastroenterology- ongoing
- other medical/research skills: feeding disorders, enteral nutrition, GCP, clinical research methodology, pediatric endoscopy
Research interests:
Her research and clinical work were mainly devoted to pediatric enteral nutrition, inflammatory bowel disease and Wilson disease
Contact:
e-mail: a.wiernicka@ipczd.pl