Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Prof. Dr. Müfit Akyüz

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About

He attended middle school and high school at Tarsus American College.

He graduated from Hacettepe Faculty of Medicine in 1986.

He completed his residency training at Ankara Rehabilitation Center and became a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) Specialist in 1990.

He fulfilled his military service as a PMR Specialist at Çorlu Military Hospital.

Between 1992 and 1998, he served as a chief assistant, deputy chief, and head of the EMG laboratory at Ankara Rehabilitation Center.

He became an associate professor in 1998 and a clinical chief in 1999, and he worked as a clinical chief and educator at the same hospital until 2015.

He also served as the chief physician at the same hospital between 2002 and 2005.

In 2015, he began working as a professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Karabük University. Simultaneously, he worked as an educator at the Ankara Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital and later at the Ankara Bilkent City Hospital PMR Clinic.

Prof. Dr. Akyüz has been serving as the president of the Turkish Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Specialists since April 2022.

Additionally, he has been serving as the president of the Spinal Cord Diseases Association since March 2015. Through this association, he served as the General Secretary of the 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS), which was held in Istanbul in 2013.

Prof. Dr. Müfit Akyüz has 157 scientific publications, 82 of which are in international journals and 75 in national journals; he has authored chapters in 2 international and 8 national books, and has edited 1 book and 1 translated book.

Affiliated Associations and Administrative Roles:

1. Turkish Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Specialists
- President (2022–present)

2. Spinal Cord Diseases Association
- President (March 2015–present)

3. International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS)
- (The 2013 ISCoS World Congress was hosted in Turkey by the Spinal Cord Diseases Association, in which I served on the board)
- ISCoS 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting, 2013, Istanbul – Congress General Secretary
- Member of the ISCoS "Scientific Committee" (2011–2015)
- Member of the ISCoS "External Relations Committee" (2018–present)

4. Turkish Society of Clinical Neurophysiology EEG-EMG (Member of the Ankara branch supervisory board between 2007–2011)

5. Turkish Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

6. Turkish League Against Rheumatism

7. Turkish Medical Association

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