Özlem Tekşam
Özlem Tekşam, MD, PhD, graduated from Gazi University Faculty of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency and her Neonatology specialty training at Hacettepe University. She then received her specialty certificate in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the same institution. She worked in the Pediatric Emergency Department of “The Hospital for Sick Kids” in Canada. She also received a PhD in Pharmaceutical Toxicology from Hacettepe University.
Since 2015 she has been working as Professor of Pediatrics at the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine of Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. Her research and work areas are triage in hospitals, injury prevention, POCUS, trauma and toxicology. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish National Pediatric Society and Vice President of the Turkish Society of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine. She also serves as Communication Lead of the Pediatric Emergency Section (EUSEP) of the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM). In addition, she served as Co-Chair of the Strategic Advisory Committee on Children in Humanitarian Emergencies of the International Pediatric Association (IPA) (2021-2023).