Academic Members

Vedat Uygun was born in 1975 in Antakya. He completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in İskenderun. He graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine in 1999. He started his specialization in the Department of Child Health and Diseases at Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine in 2000 and received his specialty certificate in 2005. He specialized in Pediatric Hematology at the same university and completed it in 2010. He started his compulsory service in Antalya Training and Research Hospital Pediatric Hematology Department in 2010. He also worked as the director of the blood center in this hospital. He completed his compulsory service duty in Kocaeli Maternity and Child Hospital in July 2012. He started working in the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit at MedicalPark Antalya Hospital in October 2013. During this period, he received the title of Associate Professor of Pediatric Hematology. With this title, he started to work as a lecturer at Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Medicine in 2013, but left this job in July 2017 for social reasons. He started to work as a professor at Istinye University Faculty of Medicine, Child Health and Diseases in November 2019. He has 62 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. It has received 563 citations from these publications. After his Pediatric Hematology residency, he continued his studies by specializing in Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation. He has participated in national and international studies in this field and has participated as a speaker and participant in national and international congresses and courses. He is married and the father of a child.