ERDOĞAN ŞENDEMİR

Erdogan Sendemir was born in Bursa, Turkey in 1960. He was graduated from Bursa Anatolian High School in 1978 and from Uludag University Faculty of Medicine in 1985. After finishing his obligatory service in Akhisar, Manisa, he started his specialty in Uludag University, Medical Faculty, Department of Anatomy and gave his thesis about "Effects of insulin and/or alfamethylparathyrosine injections on thyrosine hydroxylase activity and catecholamine levels in the adrenal medulla of rats following hemi- or transection of their spinal cords" in 1990. 

 

Following his military service in the Department of Anatomy of the Gulhane Military Medical Academy, he was attended as assistant professor at Uludag University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy in 1993. 

 

In 1994 he spent nine months as a “Visiting Scientist” in Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge.

 

He received his associate professor title in 1997. 

 

In 2000, he continued his research as a "Research Fellow” in Louisiana State University, School of Medicine, Anatomy and Cell Biology Department, New Orleans, for six months.

By 2002 he received his professorship and elected as the head of department. 

 

He spent two and a half years in Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena, Germany as a “Visiting Scientist” in 2003-2005. 

 

He also served as the vice manager of the university hospital for four years. 

 

Dr. Sendemir is one of the seven founding members of the Turkish Society of Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy (1991) where he served as president or vice president for eight years and also took part in organizations of many national and international meetings. 

 

Dr. Sendemir is the secretary of the European Federation of Experimental Morphology and is an acting delegate for the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists and a member of the Trans European Pedagogic and Anatomical Research Group.