WROBLEWSKA-SENIUK, KATARZYNA

Katarzyna Wroblewska-Seniuk is an Assistant Professor at the II Department of Neonatology (previously Department of Newborns’ Infectious Diseases) at Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland, where she has been working since 2002. She studied medicine in Poznan, Poland, and in Perugia, Italy. She is a specialist in pediatrics and neonatology. In 2006, she defended her doctoral thesis on the topic “Long-term effects of diabetes during pregnancy on the offspring”. In 2018 she received the habilitation degree for the cycle of four 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.”Her main topics of interest are: 1. perinatal complications in newborns of diabetic mothers, hypoglycemia, and hyperinsulinemia in newborns; 2. postnatal growth failure and metabolic disturbances in premature infants; 3. risk factors for hearing deficit in newborns and neonatal hearing screening. She is the author and co-author of many papers published in Polish and international journals. She 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, the USA where she worked for one year in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 2006 she received the short-term Clinical Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh.