- Received cytopathology training in 1990 and 1996 in the United Kingdom at the South West Regional School of Cytopathology, in the USA at the Indiana University Medical Center Department of Cytopathology, and in Sweden at the Karolinska Institute Department of Clinical Cytology.
- Attained the title of Associate Professor in 2002 and Professor in 2007.
- In 2009, with the Geraldine C. Zeiler Scholarship, worked as an observer in lung pathology at the Mayo Clinic in the USA.
- Has more than 70 articles published in international journals, as well as chapter authorships in national and international books and the editorship of one international book.
- Between 2006 and 2010, served as President of the “European Society of Pathology – Cytopathology Working Group”; between 2010 and 2012, as President of the “Turkish Thoracic Society and Federation of Pathology Societies Lung Pathology Working Group”; between 2014 and 2016, as President of the “National Cytopathology Society”; and between 2016 and 2018, as a member of the Board of Directors of the “Federation of Pathology Societies”.
- Main clinical areas of interest:
- Cytopathology,
- Lung pathology.
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