Biography

Prof. Dr. Oner Ozdemir was born in Alaplı, Zonguldak, Turkey in 1965. He has graduated from İstanbul Medical School, İstanbul University and become a medical doctor in 1989. Dr. Ozdemir did his pediatric residency at Department of Pediatrics in Children’s Hospital, İstanbul Medical School, İstanbul, Turkey. His clinical fellowship training was completed at Pediatric Allergy/Immunology division in Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Centre, New Orleans, LA. Some part of his clinical fellowship training was done at Pediatric Allergy/Immunology program in Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH. Dr. Ozdemir bench research areas are as follows: LAK-cell generation and cell-mediated cytotoxicity; human mast cell development and mast cell-mediated cytotoxicity; and apoptosis related research. Dr. Ozdemir clinical research areas are as follows: hereditary angioedema, chronic uricaria, biological agents. He was the first place winner of "Clemens Von Pirquet Award" from ACAAI at ACAAI meeting in 2005 for the best research on allergy/asthma/immunology by a fellow in training. Dr. Ozdemir has more than 84 International and 76 National publications, as well as 174 International and 145 National presentations, and more than 9 chapters related to my research areas. I have been an editor of 4 books so far. Currently, he works as a Head of Pediatrics and the division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at Medical Faculty of Sakarya University, Sakarya Research and Training Hospital, Adapazarı, Sakarya, Turkey