Süleyman Türedi
Prof. Dr. Süleyman Türedi studied medicine at Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine between 1995 and 2001, graduating in 2001. He completed his residency at the same faculty between 2001 and 2005 and in 2005 became one of the country’s first Emergency Medicine Specialists. He served at the Department of Emergency Medicine, KTÜ Faculty of Medicine, as Assistant Professor between 2005 and 2011, as Associate Professor between 2011 and 2017, and as Professor from 2017 to 2021. In 2021 he moved to the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Health Sciences Trabzon Faculty of Medicine, where he currently serves as Head of the Department.
Between 2012 and 2013 he worked for one year as a researcher at the University of Utah in the United States, completing a research fellowship programme, and he has an upper-intermediate level of English.
Prof. Dr. Süleyman Türedi, who has supervised dozens of theses and projects, contributed to the training of hundreds of students including medical students and residents, has more than 120 international publications and over 3,000 citations, and has served as editor and author of various books, is one of the leading scientists in his field in our country. Having served for many years as editor of the Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine, one of the most respected scientific journals in our country, and currently a member of its editorial board, Dr. Türedi serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for various scientific journals.
He is one of the few scientists in his specialty who is a member of TUKMOS (Medical Specialty Curriculum Development and Standard-Setting System), affiliated with the Medical Specialty Board (TUK) of the Ministry of Health.
He has held management roles in many non-governmental organisations and served as President of the Emergency Medicine Association of Türkiye between 2019 and 2021. Previously, he served three terms as a board member and one term as general secretary of the same association. He has contributed to the planning and execution of hundreds of scientific activities.
Between 2019 and 2023, Prof. Dr. Süleyman TÜREDİ served as Chief Physician of the 710-bed University of Health Sciences Trabzon Kanuni Training and Research Hospital, one of the largest public healthcare institutions in Trabzon. During the Covid-19 pandemic in particular, this institution became the reference hospital for the province of Trabzon and served as the most effective healthcare institution in the fight against the pandemic both in Trabzon and in the Eastern Black Sea region.
He is a congress member of Trabzonspor. His hobbies include all sports, especially football, as well as fishing, hunting, photography and nature trips.