DANE EDİGER

She began her medical education at Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine after being born in Eskişehir and completing her primary and secondary education there. She began her specialty training in Medicine in 1992, after graduating as a medical doctor in 1991 at the Bursa Uludag University Chest Diseases Tuberculosis Clinic. In 1996, she completed her chest specialization training and was certified as a Chest Diseases Specialist. She started her education in the Department of Allergy at Ankara University's Faculty of Medicine, Chest Diseases, in 1997. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mısırlıgil, one of Turkey's allergy doyens, trained her. In the year 2000, she became a specialist in Immunology and Allergic Diseases. She began providing patient care services as well as trainee doctor and research assistant training in the Asthma and Allergy Polyclinic by establishing the Immunology and Allergic Diseases Department at Uludag University. Ediger, who was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006, trained six minor specialists in the Immunology and Allergic Diseases Department, and the training of three more specialists is ongoing. Her research interests include biological agent therapy in severe asthma, specific allergen immunotherapy, and drug allergies, in addition to all allergic diseases. Since 1996, the Public Asthma School has been organizing training for patient education.