Emek Kocatürk

Professor Emek Kocatürk is a Professor at the Department of Dermatology, Koç University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. Prof. Kocatürk is Head of the Outpatient Care Unit for UCARE, ACARE and ADCARE Centers. Prof. Kocatürk had an observership on urticaria and allergic skin disorders in the Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in 2008. She has been running urticaria specialty clinics since 2007, which became GA²LEN Urticaria Centers of Reference and Excellence in 2017 first in Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital, then Koç University Hospital, in Istanbul.

Prof. Kocatürk’s research focuses on the treatment of urticaria, urticaria in pregnancy and lactation, urticarial vasculitis as well as measurement of quality of life impairment and use of patient reported outcomes in urticaria and angioedema. She has numerous publications on urticaria as well as other dermatological conditions. Her clinical emphasis is on urticaria, angioedema, atopic dermatitis, chronic pruritus and contact dermatitis.

Prof. Kocatürk is a Board Member of the Urticaria Network e.V. (UNEV), member of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, European Society for Contact Dermatitis and Secretary of the Dermatological Allergy Taskforce of the Turkish Dermatology Society. Prof. Kocatürk is also a Steering Committee Member of the UCARE Level Up programme.

Prof. Kocatürk completed her thesis at the Department of Dermatology, Göztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul in 2004. Prof. Kocatürk acquired the degree of Associate Professor in 2012 and became Head of the Dermatology Department in Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul in 2013. She received a professorship degree in 2021 and works as a lecturer, clinician and researcher in Koç University School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology in Istanbul.