Prof. Dr. Jarmila Szilasiová is a professor at the Department of Neurology, P.J. Safarik University, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital L. Pasteur, Kosice, Slovak Republic. She completed an M.D. in 1992, before specializing in neurology between 1998 and 2002 and completing a Ph.D. in 2004. She became an associate professor in 2010 and a university professor of neurology in 2023. She has worked at the department of Neurology, P.J. Safarik University, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital L. Pasteur Kosice, Slovakia, as a resident between 1992 and 1998 and as a neurologist since 1998. She was the head of the Multiple Sclerosis Section of the Slovak Neurological Society in 2016 and 2020, and has been a Neuroimmunology Panel of EAN since 2022. Her main research interests are in multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders, and rare diseases of the CNS. She is a member of the Committee of the Slovak Neurological Society.