Editor in Chief

Feyza Darendeliler
İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, İstanbul, Turkey
E-mail: feyzad@istanbul.edu.tr
ORCID-ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4786-0780

Dr. Darendeliler is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of İstanbul, İstanbul Faculty of Medicine since 1996. She was trained in Pediatric Endocrinology in İstanbul Faculty of Medicine and studied as a research fellow in Middlesex Hospital, London, UK with Prof Charles Brook.

Since 2007, she is the Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology Unit in Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. Prof. Darendeliler is the president of the Turkish Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Society since 2014 and was in the executive committee of the Society between 2011 and 2014. Prof. Darendeliler has acted as Vice Dean of Istanbul Faculty of Medicine responsible from education and training.

Among her contributions to ESPE, Prof. Darendeliler has been a Council Member, editor of the ESPE Newsletter, chair of the Accreditation and Syllabus Committee and member in the Sabbatical leave program. She acted as the secretary of the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Working Group for 6 years. She has worked in the steering Committee in International DSD Working Group. She has also worked in the Consensus meetings, namely, Safety of Growth Hormone (ESPE, PES, GRS) and recently participated in PCOS Guidelines (ESPE, PES).

Prof. Darendeliler has collaborated in several international and national multicenter studies. Her main interests are growth, growth hormone therapy, pubertal and gonadal disorders and DSD.

She has received the Outstanding Clinician Award from ESPE in 2017.

Associate Editors

Abdullah Bereket
Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, İstanbul, Turkey
E-mail: abdullahbereket@gmail.com
ORCID-ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6584-9043

Abdullah Bereket has graduated from Ankara University, Medical School in 1986. After finishing pediatric residency in 1991, he completed his subspecialty training in Pediatric Endocrinology at State University of New York in 1991-1996. He then worked as Assistant Professor at Hacettepe Medical School of Ankara in 1997-1999. In 1999, he founded Pediatric Endocrinology division at Marmara University in Istanbul and is the chief of the subspecialty program since then. He was elected as president of Turkish Pediatric Endocrinology Society between 2003-2005. He served as European Socity for Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) Summer School Steeering Committee member (2012-2016). He is in the editorial board of several international journals. His research interests encompass a spectrum of endocrinologic disorders including precocious puberty, obesity, vitamin D, and insulin-like growth factors. Dr Bereket authored more than 140 peer-reviewed articles in international journals. He has received the Outstanding Clinician Award from ESPE in 2022

Damla Gökşen
Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, İzmir, Turkey
E-mail: damla.goksen@ege.edu.tr
ORCID-ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6108-0591

Damla Gökşen Şimşek is Professor of Pediatrics in Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Department at Ege University Faculty of Medicine. Her scientific interests mainly relate to type 1 diabetes treatment and technologies, monogenic diabetes, metabolic bone disease, puberty and growth disorders. Dr. Gökşen has been working on rare genetic causes of monogenic diabetes in Turkish population.

Dr Gökşen graduated from Ege University Medical School. She completed her residency in Pediatrics and her fellowship in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes in Ege University Faculty of Medicine. In 2004, she worked in Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Department in Yale University for 3 months to develop her skills in Type 1 diabetes.

Jan Idkowiak
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
E-mail: j.idkowiak@bham.ac.uk
ORCID-ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9181-3995

Jan is a Clinical Associate Professor in Paediatric Endocrinology at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, UK

Jan graduated at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He obtained his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2015 on clinical and lab-based studies on the regulation of human androgen biosynthesis, focusing on rare forms of inborn errors of steroidogenesis, including congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 17-hydroxylase and P450 oxidoreductase deficiency, conditions leading to impaired DHEA sulfation and cytochrome b5 deficiency. His main research interest has evolved to characterise the impact of common idiopathic androgen excess conditions (premature adrenarche and adolescent polycystic ovary syndrome) on metabolism. Jan’s other key interests include differences in sex development (DSD) and childhood obesity.

Jan is an active member of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE), a member of its Working Group in DSD, and of the ESPE e-learning committee. Locally, he leads the childhood obesity service in the UK’s West Midlands region and is the Programme Director of the Birmingham NIHR/Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (Paediatrics).

Korcan Demir
Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, İzmir, Turkey
E-mail: korcandemir@gmail.com
ORCID-ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8334-2422

Dr. Demir obtained the degree of Medical Doctor at the Hacettepe University (Ankara) in 2001. He studied Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology at Dokuz Eylül University (İzmir), where currently he works as Associate Professor of Pediatrics. He has served on numerous committees in Turkish Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Society and was the Secretary General of the Society between 2014-2017. He is the coordinator of Advanced Basic Science Course in Pediatric Endocrinology since 2016. His clinical and research focus is on thyroid diseases, rickets, rare genetic endocrine diseases, and web-based medical tools (www.childmetrics.org).

Samim Özen
Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, İzmir, Turkey
E-mail: samim.ozen@ege.edu.tr
ORCID-ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7037-2713

Samim Özen is an Associate Professor at Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes. Özen has Ph.D. in Genetics and his scientific interests are mainly related to disorders of sexual development, lipodystrophies, type 1 diabetes, and genetics of endocrine disorders. He served as a board member of the Turkish Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Association between 2014-2021.

Serap Turan
Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, İstanbul, Turkey
E-mail: serap.turan@marmara.edu.tr
ORCID-ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5172-5402

Dr Turan is Professor of Paediatrics (subspecialty in paediatric endocrinology), Department of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Her main research areas are on metabolic bone diseases and GNAS-related diseases. Dr Turan has more than 100 PubMed publications with focus on paediatric endocrinology, metabolic bone diseases, genetics, epigenetics of PHP-related disorders. More recently, Dr. Turan has been working on rare genetic causes of osteogenesis imperfecta in Turkish population and factors affecting their treatment responses. Other than low bone mass diseases, high bone mass disorders are the other research areas of Dr Turan. Dr Turan has performed basic researches in bone development and now focusing more on translational researches. Her H factor is 22.

Dr Turan graduated from Hacettepe University Medical School (English division) in 1995. She completed her residency in Pediatrics in 2000 and her master degree in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes in 2004 at Marmara University Faculty of Medicine. In 2007, she received fellowships from Fulbright and The Scientific and Technology Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) to work as a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University in Endocrine Unit. In 2009, she returned as visiting scientist to Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University in Endocrine Unit for 1 year with the support of European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology Sabbatical leave Program. Dr Turan is the member of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and also performed administrative responsibilities as Program Organizing Committee Member at European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and member of Bone Working Group of the Society. Dr Turan participated COST action on imprinting disorders as a management committee member in pseudohypoparathyroidism.

Z. Alev Özön
Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Ankara, Turkey
E-mail: ozonalev@gmail.com
ORCID-ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2390-5123

Z. Alev Özön graduated from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine in 1989. She completed residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at Hacettepe University in 1999. She continued as assistant professor at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, became associate professor in 2005, and professor of pediatrics in 2010. She worked in the foundation of the first Medical Scientist Training Program for medical students in Turkey at Hacettepe Medical School (Hacettepe University MD, PhD Program) in 2003, and became Assistant Coordinator of the program between 2003-2019 and continues as Coordinator since 2019. She worked as Assistant Director, and Director of Hacettepe University İhsan Doğramacı Children’s Hospital between 2007-2011, as member of Faculty Board at Hacettepe University between 2014-17, and as member of Scientific Commission at Research Projects Coordination Unit at Hacettepe between 2016-18. She is currently Chief of Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at Hacettepe University. She also participated in the scientific committees of the National Program for Neonatal Screening (for congenital hypothyroidism and congenital adrenal hyperplasia since their onset). Her research interests encompass a spectrum of endocrinologic disorders including thyroid, adrenal and growth disorders, DSD and diabetes. Dr. Özön authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in international journals.

Editorial Board

Ali Kemal Topaloğlu
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Jackson, Mississippi, USA

Aysun Bideci
Gazi University Faculty of Medicine,Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Ankara, Turkey

Ayça Aykut
Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics, İzmir, Turkey

Banerjee Indi
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

Belma Haliloğlu
Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, İstanbul, Turkey

Gül Yeşiltepe Mutlu
Koç University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, İstanbul, Turkey

Hakan Döneray
Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Erzurum, Turkey

Hüseyin Onay
Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics, İzmir, Turkey

Hussain Alsaffar
Sultan Qaboos University, Department of Child Health, Oman

Justin Davies
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton Children’s Hospital, Paediatric Endocrinology, Southampton; University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine, Hampshire, England

Khalid Hussain
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, London, United Kingdom

Murat Bastepe
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Endocrine Unit, Boston, USA

Margaret C S Boguszewski, MD, PhD
Federal University of Paraná, Department of Pediatrics, Curitiba, Brazil

Merih Berberoğlu
Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Ankara, Turkey

Neslihan Güngör
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Louisiana, USA

Nurgün Kandemir
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Ankara, Turkey

Ömer Tarım
Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Bursa, Turkey

Rasha Tarif
Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cairo, Egypt

Violeta Iotova
Endo-ERN Work Package ‘Education & Training’ Paediatric Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria

Zehra Yavaş Abalı
Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, İstanbul, Turkey

Zdenek Šumník
Charles University and University Hospital Motol, Department of Pediatrics, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Prag, Czech Republic

Güven Özkaya (Statistical Consultant)
Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Bursa, Turkey

English Language Editor and Assistant to the Editor in Chief

Jeremy Jones
Kocaeli, Turkey