Prof. Dr. CANSIN SAÇKESEN

CANSIN SAÇKESEN

Prof. Dr. CANSIN SAÇKESEN

Pediatric Diseases

Koç University Hospital

  • Since July 2018, serving as Head of the Department of Pediatrics at the Koç University Faculty of Medicine.
  • In 2014, worked for one year as a visiting scientist on food allergies in the research laboratory of the Division of Pediatric Allergy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
  • In 2013-14, assumed the role of Head of the Division of Pediatric Allergy at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine.
  • In 2004, worked for one year at the Institute of Allergic Diseases and Asthma in Davos, Switzerland, on laboratory methods investigating the immune mechanisms of allergic diseases.
  • Became Associate Professor in 2005 and Professor in 2012.
  • Member of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and formerly served in its Pediatric Allergy Working Group.
  • Member of the Turkish National Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Chair of the Food Allergy Working Group for 2018-2020.
  • Also a member of the American Society of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the Turkish Pediatric Allergy and Asthma Academy Association, the Turkish Society of Immunology and the Turkish Thoracic Society.