Szatmçry elected to board

Gabriella Szatmçry, M.D., Ph.D., a physician in Hattiesburg Clinic’s Neurology department, has been elected to serve as a board member of the American Society of Neuroimaging. Szatmçry currently practices general neurology, neuro-ophthalmology and neuroimaging of the brain and spine. Her experience includes postgraduate training in ophthalmology, internal medicine and neurology residencies, as well as a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology and neuroimaging. In addition, she has participated and assisted in medical research at facilities such as the First Institute of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research in Budapest, Hungary, State University of New York at Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y., and Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. She has also been recognized and published in several books, magazines and medical reference journals.

Szatmçry earned her medical degree from Semmelweis Medical School in Hungary and holds a doctorate on role of functional MRI in neuro-ophthalmology from Semmelweis University Clinical Medicine Doctoral School in Hungary. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Medical Specialties in Neuroimaging and Hungarian Board of Neurology. Szatmçry holds several professional memberships including the American Academy of Neurology, North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, European Neuro-Ophthalmology Society and is the founder of Hungarian Ophthalmology Society’s neuro-ophthalmology section. Additionally, she serves as president of the first European Neuro-Ophthalmology update course.

Szatmçry was selected and recognized as a board member of the American Society of Neuroimaging at its 35th annual meeting held in Miami, Fla. In this role she serves in an advisory capacity to help promote the highest standards of neuroimaging in clinical practice, thereby improving the quality of medical care of patients with diseases of the nervous system.