BENAN BAYRAKCI   

Due 30.10.2024         

https://lsc.hacettepe.edu.tr/bbenan.html

Correspondence: benan@hacettepe.edu.tr

After TED Ankara College and Atatürk Anadolu Lycee process, he graduated from The School of Medicine, Ankara University in 1995. He took the Pediatric Residency Program in Hacettepe University through 1995-2000 and performed chief residency. He served as the attending physician in the Emergency Department of İ.D. Childrens’ Hospital for a year. Then, being entrusted with the task of transferring the pediatric intensive care ecole, he visited Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD., between 2001 - 2002 and studied intensive care medicine and held research projects on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. He also visited PICU of West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. in 2002 as an observer. He started working as the chief of PICU, Hacettepe University in Dec. 2002. Academic wise he proceeded as the lecturer in 2004, assistant professor in 2005, associate professor in 2010 and professor of pediatrics in 2015. He performed Physician in Chief and Director of İhsan Doğramaci Childrens’ hospital between 2011 and 2016. He launched “home mechanical ventilation program” in 2003, “CVVHD program” in 2004, regular “PALS courses” in 2006 and, the first-known ECMO program of Turkey in 2007. As a member of Medical Specialty Board (TUKMOS) he worked for the establishment of Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine in Turkey in 2009. In 2011, he reconstituted the Department of Pediatric Intensive care Medicine in Hacettepe University. The very first graduate of pediatric intensive medicine in Turkey was trained in this fellowship program. In 2011 he commenced the organization called “PAYlaşım” for the regular monthly meetings of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care staff. He structured a new PICU carrying verily-modern standards in 2013.  He founded The Center for Life Support Clinics and Research in 2015. The educational program for Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care School took place in this facility. He carried out the first Affiliated Pediatric Intensive Care Education Program between 2013 and 2019 as the director. He organized and took the lead of National Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Congress with international participation in Hacettepe University together with the AHA-AAP (American Heart Association-American Academia of Pediatrics) certified PALS course in 2007. He played role in the organization committee of the seventh World Congress on Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care in Istanbul, 2014. He was among the institutors of The Society of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in year 2000 and, Society of Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine in 2009. He leaded the scientific committee for the development of National Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse Training Course in 2018.  He serves as the editor and referee of several scientific journals. He is a member of various scientific committees as; The Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine Proficiency Board, Scientific Advisory Committee for Emergency Health Services of The Ministry of Health and, National Medical Specialty Board. Besides being the chief director of the ECMO program in Hacettepe University, he is the director of The Center for Life Support Clinics and Research. He is currently serving as the Head of Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine Department and the chief attending of PICU and pCICU. He has been serving as the founding president of The Life Support Foundation Trust since 2024. The prominent innovational achievements he redounded to medicine with his students are: “A Novel Immunomodulation Technique Called Zipper Method of Hacettepe”, “Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Hypoplastic Lungs”, “Rapid Sequence Apheresis for Colchicine Intoxication”, “A Novel Technique for Opening Left Sided Atelectasis (SeLBA)”, “PISA protocol for severe MIS-C”.