In 2000, completed a PhD in the field of Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Gothenburg Faculty of Medicine, Sweden.
In 2007, became Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg.
Until 2015, conducted clinical work and research in sleep apnea and heart diseases at Skaraborg Education and Research Hospital and the Department of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska Hospital/Östra, University of Gothenburg.
In 2015, returned to Istanbul and took up the post of Professor at the Department of Pulmonology, Marmara Faculty of Medicine; established and developed the Sleep Medicine Center.
In 2015–2017, concurrently at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and from January 2018 at Lund University, Sweden, served intermittently as Visiting Senior Researcher.
In 2017, appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the USA.
Continues to serve as an Editorial Board member of American Journal of the Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and as Associate Editor of Annals of the American Thoracic Society and Journal of Clinical Medicine.
In 2019, established the Sleep Apnea Outpatient Clinic and Sleep Laboratory at Koç University Hospital.
In 2020, was accepted as an American Thoracic Society Fellow.
In 2022, appointed Visiting Professor at the Division of Sleep Medicine of Harvard University Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the USA.
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