Prof. Fatih Ezgu

 

Fatih Ezgü is a Professor of Pediatrics and Head of the Department of Pediatric Genetics at Gazi University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Ankara, Turkey. He is also a faculty at the Department of Pediatric Metabolic Disorders at the same institution. After obtaining his medical degree from Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey in 1993, Professor Ezgü completed his paediatric residency at Gazi University, Ankara. In 1996, he was certified by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). Professor Ezgü completed a fellowship in inborn errors of metabolism and worked as a Clinical Instructor and then Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Gazi University before moving to the Institute of Human Genetics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, USA in 2005. He completed Clinical Genetics Residency training as well as a Research Fellowship for molecular genetics at Intercampus Medical Genetics Training Program in University of California, Los Angeles. In 2007, Professor Ezgü returned to Gazi University as Associate Professor of Pediatrics before assuming his current positions in 2010/11. Professor Ezgü has worked in the field of inborn metabolic and genetic diseases for 25 years and has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His primary interests are lysosomal disorders, mitochondrial disorders, clinical dysmorphology and genetic and metabolic bone disease and novel treatments for genetic disorders. Dr. Ezgü is also currently the vice chairman of the Phase I Clinical Trials Center for Genetic Diseases at Gazi University.