Medical Faculty Management

Prof. Dr. Nadi Bakırcı graduated from Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1989. He received his PhD in Public Health from Ege University, completing his doctoral studies at the Manchester North West Lung Research Centre and Lancashire cotton mills. Between 1998 and 2008, he conducted academic activities in public health, epidemiology, and occupational health at Marmara University School of Medicine, where he was a faculty member.

He has been a faculty member at Acıbadem University School of Medicine since its inception in 2009, focusing on medical education and educational administration. He has played an active role as coordinator and vice dean responsible for medical education in the planning and management of the medical education program. He has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine since 2021.

Prof. Dr. Özden Hatırnaz Ng graduated from the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science at Istanbul University in 2002. She completed her MSc (2002–2005) and PhD (2005–2011) in the Genetics Program at the Institute of Health Sciences, Istanbul University. During her doctoral studies, she conducted research at the Department of Immunology at Erasmus Medical Center (EMC), the Netherlands, and at the Department of Molecular Stem Cell Biology at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). She also worked as a visiting researcher at the Department of Pharmacogenetics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the United States and at the Department of Human Genetics at Heidelberg University in Germany.

Between 2005 and 2018, she served as a research assistant at the Department of Genetics at the Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental Medicine, Istanbul University. Her main research interests include childhood cancers, genetic predisposition to cancer, rare and undiagnosed diseases, and advanced therapeutic approaches. In 2018, she received the title of Associate Professor in Medical Genetics and was appointed to the Department of Medical Biology at Acıbadem University School of Medicine in the same year. She was promoted to Professor in 2023 and has been serving as the Vice Dean responsible for Research and Academic Affairs since March 2024.