Areas of expertise: Specialist in paediatric haematology and oncology, head of the paediatric haematology and paediatric bone marrow transplantation department
Education and career
University
Ege University Faculty of Medicine 1978
Specialty
Child health and diseases 1982
Sub-specialty
Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Paediatric Oncology 2002; Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology 2012
Associate Professor
Ege University Faculty of Medicine, 1995
Professor
Ege University Faculty of Medicine, 2002
Medical interests and activity
Paediatric haematology, child health and diseases, internal medicine
Paediatric haematology and oncology
Memberships of organisations
İzmir and Kocaeli branches of the Turkish Medical Association,
Turkish National Paediatric Association – İzmir
European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT); the Ege University paediatric bone marrow transplant unit was accredited in June 2007 by the "European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT)".
Turkish Society of Paediatric Haematology, board member for two terms (2005-2009)
Turkish Society of Haematology, board member for two terms (2001/2005)
National Cord Blood Commission (UKOK) of the Turkish Ministry of Health, since 2016.
Turkish Society of Paediatric Oncology
Bone Marrow Transplantation Foundation (KITVAK), board member
Units he founded:
- Paediatric Oncology Clinic, SSK Tepecik Hospital (1990)
- Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, SSK Tepecik Hospital (1992)
- Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Ege University Faculty of Medicine (EUTF) (1998)
- Founder of the JOURNAL of PEDIATRIC SEARCH, 2014 and again in 2022
Awards
"Thrombotic parameters in patients who received a bone marrow stem cell transplant", Paediatric Haematology Congress, Trabzon 2003
"The CD133 antigen in stem cells": Paediatric Haematology Congress 2005. Research award
"The role of Toll-like receptors in febrile neutropenic patients", best poster award. Turkish Haematology Congress 2008, Çeşme-İzmir
"National activity in paediatric stem cell transplantation" - oral presentation, second prize, Stem Cell Transplantation Congress of the Turkish Society of Haematology, 2022, Antalya
Publications
More than 100 national and international publications
9 book chapters