Curriculum vitae
Dr. Anna Szűcs Ph.D.
E-mail: szucsan@gmail.com
Medical degree: Semmelweis Medical School Budapest, Hungary 1978.
Specialisations:
Neurology (1983.)
Psychiatry (1986.)
EEG (1995.)
Psychiatry rehabilitation (2006.)
Epilepsy specialist (2009.)
Somnologist (2016).
Degree:
Ph.D. 2002 „Sleep disorders in neurologic diseases
Habilitation 2010 „Paroxysmal events in sleep”
I am a member of the British Association of Neurologists
Studies outside Hungary: 1988. Sleep and Epilepsy Centre Montpellier; France. Hopital Gui de Chauliac; – 9 months residency
- Marburg, Germany University Sleep Centre -3 months’ residency
- München, Germany, Epilepsy Centre – 2 months visit
Skills: General neurology; epilepsy; sleep disorders, EEG and video-telemetry; some EMG, polysomnography; psychiatry
Employment history:
Current:
Since 2019 I have been working continuously in different neurology and epilepsy as well as psychiatry positions in Hungary as a retired consultant neurologist and psychiatrist (Ferencváros Outpatient Centre- neurology consultant, Budapest Jewish Hospital neurologist and psychiatrist consultant, Semmelweis University, Institute of Behavioural Sciences- neurologist/sleep specialist).
In parallel, from October 2022 to February 2023 I had been a locum consultant sleep specialist in Queen Victoria hospital Sleep Centre in East Grinstead; partially online, partially face-to-face. Between 5th and 30 June I did a locum Neurology position in Salford Neuroscience Centre in Manchester.
Previous:
2008-2019. Department of Neurology; National Institute of Neurosciences Budapest between 2008 and 2019, till my retirement. In that job I has worked as a consultant neurologist dealing with epilepsy, video-telemetry and general neurology in-, and outpatients; I had an epilepsy and a sleep disorders’ clinic, participated in the work of the video-telemetry unit and presurgical assessment of epilepsy patients.
This job included occasional acute thrombolysis and acute stroke care as well. Teaching of residents and students was part of this job.
UK agency locums (short term consultant in neurology) since 2009:
Tunbridge Wells Hospital Essex; Torbay Hospital; Lincoln County hospital; Bath University Hospital Bedford-, Harrogate, and Birgmingham Heart of England hospitals; Truro Hospital, Cornwall.
NHS temporary jobs:
University Hospital in Southend-on-Sea (2012; 3 months); consultant in general neurology/epilepsy
Department of Neurophysiology, video-telemetry and EEG unit King’s College Hospital London 2008; 7 months- clinical fellow for video-telemetry evaluation and EEG
Permanent jobs in Hungary:
Department of Neurology National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology; 1994-2008
Department of Neurology and Psychiatry Jahn Ferenc Hospital Budapest; 1980-1994
Department of Psychiatry Nyirő Gyula Hospital Budapest; 1978-2000
As a Ph.D. and habilitated doctor in Hungary I have 173 publications in peer reviewed journals (shown on PuMed); books and papers. The number of my independent citations is 2594 (as in January 2024.).