Faculty of Medicine

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.

Araştırma Alanları

  • Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • Thalassemia
  • Leukemia
  • Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with post transplant high dose cyclophosphamide in high risk children A single center study, 2016
  • Outcome of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children and adolescents with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin s lymphoma, 2015
  • Idiopathic hyperammonemia after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation A case report, 2015
  • A successful unrelated peripheral blood stem cell transplantation with reduced intensity conditioning regimen in a patient with late onset purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency, 2015
  • Safety and Outcomes of Extracorporeal Photopheresis With the Therakos Cellex System for Graft Versus Host Disease in Pediatric Patients, 2015
  • Photopheresis long after the initiation of chronic graft versus host in a child, 2014
  • Analysis of human herpes virus 6 infections with a quantitative standardized commercial kit in pediatric stem cell transplant recipients after transplantation, 2014
  • Cutaneous Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis due to Salmonella enteritidis in a Child with Interleukin 12 Receptor Beta 1 Deficiency, 2014
  • Iron chelation therapy with oral chelators in patients with thalassemia major, 2013
  • Successful unrelated bone marrow transplantation in two siblings with alpha mannosidosis, 2012
  • Quality of Life Assessment in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Performed on Thalassemia Major Patients, 2012
  • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation activity and trends in a single pediatric transplantation center in Turkey during 1998 2008, 2012
  • The value of donor lymphocyte infusions in thalassemia patients at imminent risk of graft rejection following stem cell transplantation, 2012
  • Successful hematopoietic SCT from non identical twins to two sisters with thalassemia major by using preimplantation genetic diagnosis and HLA typing, 2011
  • Mutational spectrum in congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type II Identification of 19 novel variants in SEC23B gene, 2010
  • Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Turkey Factors Influencing Treatment and Outcome, 2010
  • Huge main pulmonary arterial thrombus in a child with increased lipoprotein a level, 2010
  • POSTTRANSPLANT ORAL IRON CHELATING THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH THALASSEMIA MAJOR, 2010
  • Unrelated cord blood transplantation in children with severe congenital neutropenia, 2009
  • Piperacillin tazobactam versus cefepime for the empirical treatment of pediatric cancer patients with neutropenia and fever A randomized and open label study, 2009
  • Prognostic Factors in Pediatric Cancer Patients Admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, 2009
  • Better Posttransplant Outcome With Fludarabine Based Conditioning in Multitransfused Fanconi Anemia Patients Who Underwent Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation, 2009
  • Long term aspects of nodular gastritis in children, 2007
  • Value of the urine strip test in the early diagnosis of bacterial peritonitis, 2005
  • Protrombin kompleks konsantresi, ISBN: , 2015