Movement Disorders in Neurology and Systemic Disorders

Prof dr Marina AJ de Koning-Tijssen (1964) started her medical studies in 1982 and finished (cum laude) in 1990 at the Leiden University. For her doctoral thesis she worked for five months as a research fellow with Prof DS Zee, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. In the period 1991 -1998 she was a resident at the department of neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre (Prof Dr RAC Roos). She defended her thesis' Hyperekplexia, startle disease' in 1997 and finished her neurology training in 1999. As a clinical and research fellow she worked 14 months (1998-1999) at the prestigious MRC Human Movement and Balance Unit, The Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, England with prof P Brown. From September 1999 till January 2012 she worked as a neurologist and from 2007 as Principal Investigator in the department of neurology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam. During this period she was co-promotor five times. Over the years she supervised several medical students, PhD students, research fellows, and neurologists performing a clinical fellowship. She regularly is member of PhD defending committees, gives lectures, teaching courses, and organises national and international congresses. In January, 2012 she started as professor in Movement Disorders at the department of neurology, University Medical Centre Groningen. The most prestigious prizes awarded to her are the NWO-VIDI Laureaat (2004) for the project “Myoclonic Dystonia: borderland between neurology and psychiatry” and the ZonMW-TOP grant (2019) for the project " Next Generation Phenotyping: The next move in movement disorders".