Abdullah Bereket

Dr Bereket has graduated from Ankara University, Medical School in 1986. After finishing pediatric residency training in 1991, he completed his fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology at State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA in 1991-1996. He was appointed as Assistant Professor at Hacettepe University of Ankara in 1997. In 1999, he founded Pediatric Endocrinology division at Marmara University of Istanbul and runs subspecialty training program. He was granted full professorship in 2003. Dr Bereket authored more than 170 peer-reviewed articles in international journals. He has a Web of Science H index of 31 as of 2022. He was awarded as outstanding young scientist by Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2001. He is a member of European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) and served in board of ESPE Bone Club. He was elected to ESPE Summer school steering commitee in 2011 and served till 2015. He has served as, treasurer, vice president and President of Turkish Pediatric Endocrin Society between 2001-2007. He received "Outstanding Clinician Award " of ESPE in 2022. His main research interests are; Precocious Puberty, Obesity, and GH-IGF-I axis.