ADALET (MERAL) GÜNEŞ

She was born in Bandırma in 1960.  She was an Exchange AFS student and graduated from Rocky River High School, Ohio, USA in 1979. Her medical education was completed in Ege University in 1985. She worked as a general practitioner in Kırşehir between 1985 and 1987. She became a pediatrist after completing 5 years of education in Ege University Children Hospital  in 1993. In the same year, she  started pediatric  hematology and oncology training in Uludag University and worked as a researcher about Thalassemia Genetics in TUBITAK for 6 months in 1995.  She continued her training  in Ankara University Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department in 1996. Afterwards, she worked as a registrar  in Bone Marrow Transplant Unit of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, England for a year. 

She received associate professor and professor degrees in 2000 and 2007, respectively.

She is the head of Bursa Childhood Leukemia Foundation for the last 15 years. The foundation during her presidency opened the first patient Guesthouse in Bursa named “Rahime Gazioğlu Bursa-LÖDER Patient Gesthouse” in 2011. The same foundation ensured that Uludağ University’s Sabahattin Gazioğlu  Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Hospital was built under her leadership in 2015. She also founded Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in the same hospital and transplant programme continue to be made since 2016.

She is also the founding president of Bursa Hemophilia Foundation.

She is currently the II.nd president of Turkish Pediatric Hematology Association and will be the I.st president in May 2023.   

She is the member of SIOP-Europe and serves as the president of SIOP-EUROPE Turkish Leukemia Working Party.

She speaks English fluently.

She is currently the Head of Pediatric Hematology Department in Uludag University, Bursa.