Özlem Yiğit
She graduated from Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine in 2000. She completed in 2005 the residency she had begun at the department of emergency medicine of the same university. She currently serves as Professor at the Department of Emergency Medicine of Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine. For many years she has served as “Phase V Coordinator” on the faculty’s Education Coordination Board. She also works on other boards related to education and administration, such as the PBL Module and Scenario Board, the Self-Assessment Coordination Office, the Hospital Disaster Commission and the COVID-19 Advisory Board.
She is a member of the 16th-term Board of Directors of the Emergency Medicine Association of Türkiye and holds the Emergency Medicine Board Certificate. She has served as an instructor and coordinator at the congresses and symposia organised by the Association. Her special interests are trauma, wound care and interventional procedures, and pain management.
She is married and the mother of two sons. In her spare time she attends games as a full-time “Basketball Starting Five Parent”.