Koç University School of Medicine
He graduated from Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara in 1989 and completed his Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology residency in 1996, in Ankara University, Turkey. He received Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University School of Public Health in 2003. In 2000-2002, he worked as a research fellow in the Clinical Epidemiology division of Infectious Diseases Department at the University of Utah, School of Medicine, USA. He is the editor of books on Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (2007, Springer), Emerging Infectious Diseases: Clinical Case Studies (2014, Elsevier), Antimicrobial Stewardship (2017, Elsevier, ESCMID/ESGAP), and Research and Publication Academy (2022). He served as the executive committee member of Turkish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLİMİK) since 2011, and as the president between 2013 and 2017. He served as the member of executive committee of ESCMID (European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) between 2018 and 2022, and member of Lancet Commission on COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is a member of Science Academy in Turkey. He currently serves as Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology in Koç University School of Medicine and as the director of Koç University İş Bankası Infectious Diseases Center.