Bone & Mineral Metabolism

BIOGRAPHY

Serap Turan is an Associate Faculty Member who works with Murat Bastepe to evaluate the literature relevant to their research interests.

Serap Turan also has responsibility for checking the contents of the following journals to ensure that the highest quality research relevant to their own interests within these publications is comprehensively and systematically evaluated for F1000:

- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Associate Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology, Marmara University, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology

EDUCATION:
• Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine (Ankara, Turkey) 1995
• Residency in Pediatrics, Marmara University (Istanbul, Turkey) 2000
• Fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology, Marmara University (Istanbul, Turkey) 2004
• Research Fellow, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University 2007
• Visiting Scientist, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University 2010

MEMBERSHIPS:
• American Society of Bone and Mineral Research
• European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology
• Turkish Society of Pediatric Endocrinology
• Turkish Society of Pediatrics
• 2009- Editorial board member of Turkish Clinical Pediatrics (Turkiye Klinikleri Pediatri Dergisi)
• 2009-2010 Diabetes Advisory Committee Member of Turkish Ministry of Health
• 2010, 2011 Program organizing committee member of European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology

AWARDS/HONORS:
• 2007 Awarded by Turkish Academy of Science for Postdoctoral fellowship in Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
• 2007 Awarded by Fulbright for Postdoctoral fellowship in Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
• 2010 European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) Sabbatical Leave Programme award

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Metabolic bone disease, vitamin D metabolism, genetics of rickets and pseudohypoparathyroidism, growth and growth factors, thyroid physiology and pathophysiology, thyroid genetics.