[S-08] Symposium 08「Oculopharyngodistal myopathy in Asian and Oceanian region」

[S-08-5] OPDM in Turkey

Hacer Durmus (Department of Neurology, Istanbul University)

Hacer Durmus, MD
Neuromuscular Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Hacer Durmus graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Turkey in 2006. She was a resident in the Department of Neurology between 2006 and 2011. Dr Durmus was a research fellow at Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University in 2009.
In 2012, she returned to the Department of Neurology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, where she is currently based. Dr Durmus became an Associate Professor in 2015 and a Professor in 2019 at the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. She is a fellow of the European Board of the Neurology (EAN) and national delegate of EAN since 2023. Dr. Durmus has been moderating the Turkish Neurological Society Neurogenetics Committee since 2021. Dr. Durmus was elected as a Board Member of the Turkish Neurological Society in 2023.
Dr. Durmus's interest in neurology focuses on neuromuscular diseases, especially rare genetic disorders. She has worked as a principal investigator in many national and international clinical trials. Dr. Durmus is the author of 98 scientific articles (76 of which are peer-reviewed in PubMed). H-index 19 (Web of science), number of citations (WOS): 1071.