Academic Members

Makbule Nurperi Gazioğlu,  Prof.

Born in Istanbul in 1958, Nurperi Gazioğlu completed her neurosurgery education at Istanbul University’s Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine in 1984, where she worked until 2017. She is the first Turkish woman to become an associate professor (2000) and professor (2008) of neurosurgery. Her neurosurgical research mainly focuses on pituitary tumors. She co-founded Istanbul University’s Pituitary Center in 2015 and organized scientific meetings and training courses of endoscopic pituitary surgery with live surgeries and hands-on cadaver dissections. Gazioğlu also worked as a member neurosurgeon of the Turkish Forensic Medicine Institute’s First Specialization Board of the Ministry of Justice. In 2017-2021, Gazioğlu has chaired the Department of Neurosurgery at Demiroglu Bilim University in Istanbul. She is chair of Istinye University Neurosurgery Department since 2021. Gazioğlu, was graduated from Galatasaray High School. She speaks English, French, Italian, and Spanish and is a member of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica, Italian Neurosurgical Society (SINCh), Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française, Pituitary Surgeons and Society of Neuroendoscopy. In 2013, she was chosen as the first woman president of the Central Nervous System Surgery Society in Turkey. She was a member of the executive board of the Turkish Neurosurgical Academy between 2015 and 2016 and a member of its scientific research committee between 2018-2020. In 2013, she was named “Leading Woman Scientist” by the Turkish Association of University Women. She is married to a professor of general surgery and is a proud mother of two sons.

Research Areas: Skull base neurosurgery, Brain Tumor, Neuroendoscopy, Pediatric Neurosurgery

Ders Verdiği Bölümler: Skull base neurosurgery, Brain Tumor, Neuroendoscopy, Pediatric Neurosurgery