Speakers

Damla Gökşen is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Department at Ege University Faculty of Medicine. Her scientific interests mainly focus on type 1 diabetes treatment and technologies, monogenic diabetes, metabolic bone disease, and puberty and growth disorders. She has over 100 publications and have been awarded approximately 20 grants." In 2004, at Ege University Faculty of Medicine, she developed the Pediatric Diabetes Technology Division, making the department the most referenced diabetes center in the country. She founded the Diabetes Technology Symposium in Turkey alongside with adult endocrinologists. In 2010, she made the Diabetes Center at her university a member of SWEET, and the center continues to operate as COR. She started a T1D screening program in the Aegean Region. Ege University Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Clinic serves as an Allan Drash Clinical Fellowship host center for 4 years.

Since 2021, she has been serving as the head of the medical faculty measurement and evaluation commission after working as the 5th Grade Pediatrics internship block manager, where she initiated the evaluation of the process by implementing changes in the clinical exams for medical students.