Oguz Baskurt, scientist, teacher and mentor, as remembered by Herbert Meiselman

摘要

Oguz K. Baskurt, MD, PhD, Professor of Physiology, K09 University, Istanbul has died. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on July 13, 2013 and died one week later without regaining consciousness. There were no signs or symptoms to suggest this event and he was his usual active and friendly self at a conference in Pecs, Hungary, just prior to his acute illness. He was 57 years old. Dr. Baskurt obtained his MD degree from Hacettepe University, Ankara, in 1982 and his PhD degree in physiology from the same university in 1988. Interestingly, his PhD thesis was entitled "Microrheo-logical and Macrorheological Effects of Reticulocytosis", thus indicating an early interest in the fields of biorheology and clinical hemorheology. He was an Associate Professor at Hacettepe University, then in 1997 accepted a position as Professor of Physiology at Akdeniz University, Antalya. He moved to K09 University, Istanbul, in 2010 where he was a Professor of Physiology at the time of his death.