I was born in Aydin, Turkey, in 1969. I was graduated from Ege University Medical School in 1993. In 1994, I started my residency in Dokuz Eylul University Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine. I conducted research on the “Role of end-tidal CO2 monitoring in patients intubated and resuscitated in the emergency department” as my thesis for specialty graduation in 1998. I have been working as a faculty member since September 1998 in Dokuz Eylul University Medical School, Dept. of Emergency Medicine. I have gained docentship title in October, 2004. In the meantime, I completed the Fellowship Program in International Emergency Medicine Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Hershey, PA in June-August 2005. I have served as the chairman of the department in DEU between April 2005 and September 2007. I have been in charge of the ED of Istanbul Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for the Turkish Ministry of Health between 2007 and 2009. I have served as a faculty member in Acıbadem University Medical School, Dept. of Emergency Medicine between 2009-15. In the meantime (2011), I have also participated in the refreshment work for the Joint Commission International (JCI) certification in the Acibadem Bakirkoy Hospital. At the end of 2015 I started serving in the Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul Education and Research Hospital, Fatih, Istanbul. Thirty-four research projects have been conducted as specialty graduation thesis under my supervision so far. 161 articles of mine were published or accepted in international peer-reviewed journals and 72 in national ones. I have contributed in six original books as editor, and authored forty chapters, besides three translations. I have given lectures and joined in educational activities in various symposia and seminars. I have also contributed in a total of 76 abstract presentations in scientific congresses and meetings. I am in the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Signa Vitae’ which is included in the SCI-Expanded list. I also serve as an instructor of the American Heart Association-based Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course. I was awarded with a “Fellowship of Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey” (FEMAT) in 2017. Edited book projects entitled ‘Trauma Surgery’, ‘Poisoning in the Modern World’, and ‘Cardiac Diseases and Interventions in 21st Century’ and “Emergency Medicine and Trauma” were published in 2018 and 2019, with the collaboration of the publisher InTechOpen. Recently, two of my book projects entitled "Demystifying COVID-19: Understanding the disease, Its Diagnosis and Treatment” and “Cardiac Care and COVID-19: Perspectives in Medical Practice” were published by Bentham Science Publishers. All these publications have been cited 1648 times so far (ResearchGate). My research interests are resuscitation, advanced life support, pain management, airway emergencies, disaster medicine, trauma and toxicology, and lastly, diagnosis and management of COVID-19. H index = 24 (year 2021) RG score= 36.27