Sezer Şener Komsuoğlu (born 1949) is a Turkish neurologist. She was the rector of Kocaeli University between 2006 and 2014.

Biography

Komsuoğlu was born in 1949 in

Trabzon Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. The city was founded in 756 BC as "Trapezous" by colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid E ...

. She graduated from the Atatürk Girls' High School and studied medicine at Atatürk University, graduating in 1974. She specialised in

neurology Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine) , medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous syst ...

Ankara University Ankara University () is a public university, public research university in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the History of the Republic of Turkey, formation of the Turkish republ ...

and

Hacettepe University Hacettepe University () is a public research university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on 8 July 1967. It is ranked first among the Turkish universities by University Ranking by Academic Performance in 2021. The university has two main c ...

between 1974 and 1978 and completed her

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at the

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in 1981. She helped with the foundation of the Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine and was the Educational Coordinator of Neurology between 1982 and 1992. She became a

docent The term "docent" is derived from the Latin word , which is the third-person plural present active indicative of ('to teach, to lecture'). Becoming a docent is often referred to as habilitation or doctor of science and is an academic qualifi ...

in 1982 and a professor in 1988. In 1995, she moved to Kocaeli to help the establishment of the new medical faculty there and became the head of neurology and

internal medicine Internal medicine, also known as general medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. Its namesake stems from "treatment of diseases of ...

. She was chosen as the rector of the university in 2006. Komsuoğlu's principal areas of research are

epilepsy Epilepsy is a group of Non-communicable disease, non-communicable Neurological disorder, neurological disorders characterized by a tendency for recurrent, unprovoked Seizure, seizures. A seizure is a sudden burst of abnormal electrical activit ...

and

electroencephalography Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain. The biosignal, bio signals detected by EEG have been shown to represent the postsynaptic potentials of pyramidal neurons in ...

, but she has also undertaken research about

action potential An action potential (also known as a nerve impulse or "spike" when in a neuron) is a series of quick changes in voltage across a cell membrane. An action potential occurs when the membrane potential of a specific Cell (biology), cell rapidly ri ...

s. She has written 44 articles published in journals listed in the

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, including publications in the ''

European Heart Journal The ''European Heart Journal'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal of cardiology published by Oxford University Press on a weekly basis, on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. The first issue was published in February 1980. Overview Th ...

'' and '' European Journal of Neurology''. She has 63 other articles published in scientific journals. She was married to Baki Komsuoğlu, the rector of Kocaeli University before her.

References

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