Our professionals
Dr. Rocío Sánchez-Carpintero
Co-Director of the Department of Pediatrics.
Specialist in Pediatrics and Child Neurology.
Primary focus on childhood epilepsy and Dravet syndrome
Professional career
MD (1992) and PhD (2000) in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Navarra. Specialist in Pediatrics at Clínica Universidad de Navarra. She completed the subspecialty in Child Neurology at Clínica Universidad de Navarra and specialized in Childhood Epilepsy at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London.
Medical Specialist, Department of Pediatrics, Clínica Universidad de Navarra. Child Neurology Unit.
Co-Director of the Department of Pediatrics since 2020.
RESEARCH AREAS
Her main line of research and clinical practice is childhood epilepsy and pediatric neuropsychology, especially attention deficit and cognitive problems in children with epilepsy.
She has participated in 10 clinical trials and 7 competitive research projects.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Her main areas of interest are childhood epilepsy and learning difficulties in children with neurological disorders. She leads the Dravet Syndrome Unit, where she treats children with this condition and develops translational research projects aimed at finding a cure.
Activity
In teaching
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra, accredited by ANECA.
Undergraduate and Master’s program faculty.
Faculty member in the child neurology training course in the accredited unit at Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
In research
She has published more than 45 scientific articles in national and international journals, as well as 9 book chapters.
She is supervising two PhD theses and has supervised one research proficiency project.
She has participated as an invited speaker in more than 40 scientific meetings and has contributed more than 180 presentations at various meetings and congresses.
Acknowledgments
- He has received accreditation in Pediatric Neurology by the Spanish Society of Pediatric Neurology and Spanish Association of Pediatrics.
- Since May 2018, member of the Board of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Neurology.
Awards
- She received in June 2014 a grant for the following project by the Fundación Mutua Madrileña: Dravet Syndrome: Study of serum markers of cognitive prognosis, epilepsy and response to treatment.