Haluk Topaloğlu

Prof. Haluk Topaloğlu
Faculty
Department of Pediatrics
Yeditepe University in İstanbul.

Prof. Haluk Topaloğlu graduated from Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey in 1978 and completed his specialty in Pediatrics at the same Institute in 1982.

Between 1984 and 1985, he trained in Child Neurology at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, University of Calgary, Canada. He completed a fellowship as the Christian Saunders memorial fellow at the Royal Post Graduate Medical School in London, UK in 1994-1995.

He is an ’Association Française contre les Myopathies’ (AFM) scholar. Dr. Topaloglu has received several national and international awards including the Turkish Scientific and Research Council (TUBİTAK) award in 2003 and the Italian Gaetano Conte prize in 2015 for his lifetime contributions to clinical and basic research in muscle diseases. He is a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA).

He served as the Secretary of the World Muscle Society (WMS) from 2001-2019 and worked on the Executive Boards of the International Child Neurology Society (ICNA), Infantile Seizure Society (ISS), Asian and Oceanian Child Neurology Association (AOCNA), Mediterranean Society of Myology (MSM) and is currently Co-chair of the ICNA Neurology through Art and Time (NTAT) Humanities Committee.

He has aided in the clinical development of novel genetic therapies for Pediatric neuromuscular disorders such as SMA and DMD.

He is on the editorial boards of Neuropediatrics, Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases, Annals of Child Neurology Society and is currently Executive Associate Editor of the Neuromuscular Disorders journal.
Currently, Professor Topaloglu is a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at Yeditepe University in İstanbul.