OSMAN DÖNMEZ

He graduated from Izmir Menemen High School in 1976 and from Ege University Aegean Medical Faculty in 1982. Between 1982-1984, he performed his compulsory service in the central health center of Kastamonu İnebolu Doğanyurt district. Between 1984-1986, he completed his military service at the Aegean Army Command, Izmir Narlıdere Engineering School. He became a Child Health and Diseases specialist in Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Child Health and Diseases in 1993. He became a Pediatric Nephrologist in 1998 and a Child Rheumatology specialist in 2011. He became Associate Professor in 2002 and Professor in 2010. He is currently the Head of Bursa Uludağ University, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Rheumatology. He gives lectures in the field of Nephrology and Rheumatology at undergraduate and graduate levels. The Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Rheumatology has become an important center in these areas in the Southern Marmara region. With the training of students, assistants, nurses and experts, also contributes. Today, an average of 27,000 patients are served annually in our Pediatric Nephrology, Rheumatology, Hypertension, Peritoneal Dialysis, Hemoodialysis and Kidney Transplant outpatient clinics. Our center; It is among the leading centers of our country in the treatment of Nephrotic Syndrome, Urination Disorders, Kidney Stones, Acute Kidney Injury, Chronic Renal Failure, Peritoneal Dialysis, Hemodialysis and Kidney Transplant. Continuous renal replacement therapies (Hemodiafiltration) are also performed and monitored in newborns and older children. In our center; Periodic fever syndromes such as childhood rheumatism, collagen tissue diseases such as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Vasculitis and Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) are diagnosed, followed up and treated. KIDNEY TRANSPLANT: In our department, the first kidney transplant was performed in 2006, and the average number of Kidney Transplant performed and followed-up kidney transplant patients is 10 each year. Kidney transplantation is performed from cadavers or living donors. A total of 94 patients have undergone kidney transplantation to date. Our youngest patient, a 17-month-old baby with polycystic kidney disease, received a kidney transplant from a cadaver. Currently, we have been monitoring healthily for 8 years.