Anna Sediva MD, PhD, DSc

Dr. Anna Sediva, MD, Ph.D. is a Vice-head in the Department of Immunology at the University Hospital Motol. She completed her Doctor of Medicine at the 2nd Medical School - Charles University. Her long-time interest in immunology was reflected in her work in the field of pediatric immunology in former Czechoslovakia. During the period from 1992 to 1995, she spent at New York Medical College in NY, USA, and devoted this time to basic research in immunology. She has also an additional international experience from her stay as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, in 2001. From 2010–2015 she was awarded a position on the ESID board and since 2011 she is chairing the JMF center in Prague. Prof. Sediva holds currently the position of vice-head of the Department of Immunology at a major University hospital in Prague. She is responsible for the field of pediatric immunopathologies with an emphasis on primary immunodeficiencies.