Prof. BERRAK YEGEN

Biography

Berrak Çağlayan Yeğen has graduated in 1977 from İzmir American Colegiate Institute and in 1983 from Ege University Medical Faculty in İzmir, and after her obligatory service in Eskişehir, she has started training in Physiology at Marmara University Medical Faculty, and since 1992 she is working as the Professor of Physiology at the same deparment.  Her major interests in research are gastrointestinal motility, neural and hormonal mechanisms controlling gastric emptying and gastric acid secretion and the pathophysiology of inflammatory processes.  She has received Eczacıbaşıbaşı Scientific Research Award, Ibrahim Ethem Ulagay Toxicology Award, Istanbul Medical Doctors’ Chamber Medical Science Award and Sedat Simavi Health Sciences Award. She is the member of Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Medical Education Programs.