Professor Celia Oreja-Guevara is Vice Chair of Neurology and Associate Professor of Neurology at the University Complutense, both in Madrid, Spain.
After gaining her medical degree from the University of Madrid, Professor Oreja-Guevara completed her PhD thesis in Neuroimmunology at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich, and the University of Munich, Germany. She then completed a residency in the Department of Neurology at the University of Bochum, Germany, followed by a one-year fellowship in neuroimaging at the University Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. Since then, Professor Oreja-Guevara has held several posts, including: Senior Neurologist and Research Fellow in the Department of Neurology at the University of Dusseldorf and the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Bochum, Germany; and Head of the Department of Neurology, Hospital de Fuenlabrada and Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center, University Hospital La Paz, both in Madrid, Spain.

Professor Oreja-Guevara’s main areas of research interest are clinical and neuroimaging correlations in MS and the use of optical coherence tomography. She is also interested in Neuromyelitis Optica(NMO), is actively involved in the evaluation of new drugs for the treatment of MS and NMO, and has been an investigator for several clinical trials in MS. In addition, Professor Oreja-Guevara has held leadership positions in a number of national organisations and academic societies, including the Demyelinating Diseases Group and the Neuroimaging Group of the Spanish Neurological Society, the Madrid Neurological Association. She is a member of the Education Committee of the European Academy of Neurology and Co-Chair of the Multiple Sclerosis Panel of the European Academy of Neurology and serves as an expert for the Scientific Advisory Group on Neurology of the European Medicines Agencyand also for the Spanish Medicines Agency. She is President of ParadigMS foundation (ParadigMS is an independent and non-profit international group of Multiple Sclerosis experts).