Cem Uzun

Prof. Dr. Cem Uzun is the Chairman of the Department of ORL&HNS at Koç University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Türkiye. He is the Founder and its first President of the Mirko Tos Ear and Hearing Research Center. He is the General Secretary of the Balkan Association of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Council Member of International Cochlear Implant Society and Otology-Neurotology Society. He was the President of the Turkish Society of ORL-HNS 2022 National Congress and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Turkish Society of ORL-HNS. He was founding President of Trakya Society of ORL-HNS. He was Trakya Region Education Committee Chair of Ministry of Health Newborn Hearing Screening Program and Head of Trakya University Cochlear Implant Council. He served as ORL Section Delegate at European Union of Medical Specialists. He is the Vice-President of Europe Association of Science Editors (EASE) and Chairman of the EASE Regional Chapters Committee. He is the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Institution TR-Index Journal Selection Committee Member. He worked at various editorship tasks at the Balkan Medical Journal during its quality development. He is now Editor in Chief of the Balkan ORL-HNS - the new official journal of Balkan Association of ORL-HNS. He organized many meetings on ORL, Otology, Audiology, Scientific Writing, Editorship, Journal management and Publication ethics. He is the author or editor of more than 100 publications mainly published in international scientific journals in the field of ORL-HNS. He is the owner of two patents and four surgical techniques in the field of otology & oto-neurology. He gave over 250 presentations at mainly international scientific meetings as an invited speaker or instructor. He received the Trakya University “Outstanding Young Faculty Member of Award”, “Certification of Thanks” (almost every year), the university’s most prestigious award: "Science Award", Turkish Underwater Research Association’s “Researcher of the Year Award" and Best Poster awards at several national and international congresses. He was awarded by the American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Foundation as a “Goodwill Ambassador” from Türkiye and the Balkans. He received Danish Government scholarship to work at Copenhagen University and Fulbright Scholarship to do postdoc research at the University of Miami, Miami Ear Institute.