Prof. Dr. Ömer Uğur

Prof. Dr. Ömer Uğur

2011-2015 Chair of the Hacettepe Hospitals Health Services Unit Board

Prof. Dr. Ömer Uğur served as Chair of the Hacettepe Hospitals Health Services Unit Board between 2011 and 2015.

Dr. Uğur graduated from the Turkish Education Association Ankara College High School in 1983 and from the Hacettepe University English-language Faculty of Medicine in 1989. He completed his specialty training in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1995.

He became an associate professor in 1998 and a professor in 2004. In 1992 and 2001, he worked for a total of 2 years at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA. He received the Turkish Society of Nuclear Medicine Prof. Dr. Suphi Artunkal Award in 1995, the Hacettepe University Research Group Science Encouragement Award in 1994-1995 and 1995-1996, the TÜBİTAK Science Encouragement Award in 2002 and the TÜBA-GEBİP award in 2003. He served on the TAEK advisory board. He worked as a member of the Human Medicinal Products Licensing Advisory Commission of the General Directorate of Pharmaceuticals and Pharmacy and the TÜBİTAK Ulakbilim Turkish Medical Index Committee. Between 2010 and 2014 he served as President of the Turkish Society of Nuclear Medicine.

Dr. Uğur's research has focused on the field of Nuclear Oncology. He has been actively involved in the development of radioimmuno and radiopeptide-based original PET imaging radiopharmaceuticals. In the clinic, he is involved in radionuclide therapy of thyroid, neuroendocrine and liver cancers.