On 27 September 2022 the Lancet is planning to publish Review and Opinion paper “Diagnosis and classification of optic neuritis” by the consortium of authors
[Axel Petzold, Clare Fraser, Mathias Abegg, Raed Alroughani, Daniah Alshowaeir, Regina Alvarenga, Cécile Andris, Nasrin Asgari, Zhannat Idrissova*, Gordon T Plant et. al.] *KazNMU named after S.D. Asfendiyarov
This paper was organized and inspired by a group of world leading neuro-ophthalmologists from The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square and Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, United Kingdom with whom
Professor Dr. Zhannat Idrissova has collaborated since 2002. Her scientific contributions of the autoimmunity in pediatric cases, published in Nature Medicine 2007, had been key to understanding the subforms of optic neuritis included to present International Consensus Classification.
Professor Idrissova is a consultant pediatric neurologist at University clinic Aksai, Almaty, Kazakhstan. She works at the Neural Diseases Department of S.D. Asfendiyarov KazNMU for about 20 years. Last year she become the director of Center for orphan diseases with neurological presentation in children.
Her professional career started with Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitis Institute, Moscow, Russia, where she performed her postdoctoral study. In 2002, based on the research results of immune-mediated encephalomyelitis she won a grant (sponsored by Young Neurologist Trainee of EFNS) for 6-month fellowship in Neuroimmunology Department of King’s College of London (mentor professor Richard Hughes). Young Neurologist Trainee was led by Axel Petzold, at that time PhD student in the Institute of Neurology. During her fellowship, Dr Idrissova was a clinical observer of Dr. Plant’s clinics. The collaborations formed at the time helped her with the collaborative research published in Nature Medicine (2007) entitled “Self-antigen tetramers discriminate between myelin autoantibodies to native or denatured protein”.
Over the past decade Professor Idrissova continued her research in Devic’sneuromyelitis optica in the Kazakh pediatric population and joint the panel of experts which was involved in a 3 year Delphi consensus process resulting in present landmark Position Paper published in the Lancet Neurology (https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(22)00200-9).
Dr. Plant MD FRCP FRCOphth
Dr. Petzold MD PhD FRCP FRCOphth FRCPath
Prof. Idrissova, MD, PhD
