Parviainen, Anndra

Anndra Parviainen, PhD, post-doc researcher, Brain Research Unit, University of Eastern Finland, has been recognized and awarded as “Researcher of the Year 2024” during the 80th anniversary of Sairaanhoitajien koulutussäätiö held in Helsinki. She is presently continuing her post-doc at University of Eastern Finland, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Brain Research Unit. She had worked as University Teacher/ Project Researcher in UEF, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing Sciences, Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, Kuopio Campus, Finland. Her research interests are in neurodegenerative disorders, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Alzheimer’s diseases, dementia, memory-related diseases, brain health promotion, genetics-genomics education, health promotion and prevention, interventional studies, health-related quality of life, nursing education, evidence-based practice, and patients’ safety research. She had worked as junior researcher in various research groups like cancer research (INEXCA), quinoa food innovation research (Clinical Research Nurse in Disruptive Green Project) and COVID research group (Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme Covid-19 Response Umbrella Project). She had worked in international multi-disciplinary research team (Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, New Zealand, Philippines, UK, and USA,) during her PhD dissertation. She is currently continuing her research on the topic: ReMemBer Project: Evidence-based Research on Patient and Public Expectations and Ethical issues related to Blood Biomarkers, Early Diagnosis and New Memory Drugs/ disease-modifying drugs of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration and Early Onset Dementia: Basis of developing guidelines and health educational interventions for clinicians.