Haldun Akoğlu
• Professor of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Marmara University, İstanbul, Türkiye
• PhD Student, Department of Medical Education, Acıbadem MAA University, İstanbul, Türkiye
• Member, Education and Core Curriculum Section, International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM)
• Executive Committee Member, Research Section, International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM)
• Chair, Trauma Section, Emergency Medicine Association of Türkiye (EMAT)
• Founder of Acilci.Net and Akamedika.com
Professor Haldun Akoğlu works on trauma, clinical decision rules, diagnostic accuracy studies, statistics and research science, and is a respected educator and researcher with more than 100 publications and over 7,000 citations. Within TATD, he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors (3 terms), Chair of the Media Committee, Chair of the Education Committee, President of the Emergency Medicine Academy and Editor-in-Chief of the Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine. For more than 10 years he has been organising and teaching courses for young academics on statistics, epidemiology, research methodology, medical writing, meta-analysis, systematic literature review and critical appraisal. As a pioneer in the digitalisation of emergency medicine education in Türkiye, he founded Acilci.Net, the country's largest and most visited Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) platform, and Akamedika, an initiative focused on remote academic development training. He is also the bassist of Rule/Out, the Turkish rock cover band beloved by the emergency medicine community.