Omar Hikmat

Omar Hikmat is a senior consultant in paediatric neurology, working at the Paediatric Neurology section- Paediatric Department, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, and researcher at the Mitochondrial Medicine and Neuro-genetic research group, Clinical Institute 1, University of Bergen, Norway.

Hikmat has a special interest in paediatric neuro-metabolic, mitochondrial disorders and complex epilepsies.

Main research interest is within mitochondrial medicine and particularly the clinical spectrum and natural history of POLG disease.  Hikmat is responsible for the National Norwegian POLG registry and the multinational POLG database.