Pandemic Working Group by Turkish Medical Association

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The Turkish Medical Association (TTB) has stated that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is neither the first nor the last and announced that it has reorganized its COVID-19 Monitoring Board as the Pandemic Working Group. The new group consists of 27 members, including legal professionals, political scientists and software developers.

The TTB has made the following statement about the issue:

"We would like to thank all our members of the Monitoring Board, who have made considerable efforts for a year since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, shared their scientific knowledge and made outstanding efforts to inform the public about the difficulty of this process. Considering the fact that this pandemic is neither the first nor the last and that we will face more pandemics and given the awareness that this process will not be limited to the COVID-19 virus, we hereby announce that we have reorganized our COVID-19 Monitoring Board as the Pandemic Working Group and that, with our new members, we will continue fulfilling our obligation to inform the public and we will work with a responsibility for preventing new pandemics and making preparations for the ones that we cannot prevent."

The members of the Pandemic Working Group:

Aslı Davas, Public Health Specialist
Feride Aksu, Public Health Specialist
Mehmet Zencir, Public Health Specialist
Nasır Nesanır, Public Health Specialist
Tayyar Şaşmaz, Public Health Specialist
Tomris Cesuroğlu, Public Health Specialist
Esin Şenol, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Specialist
Levent Akyıldız, Chest Diseases Specialist
Lütfü Telci, Anesthesiology and Reanimation Specialist
Melek Demir, Medical Microbiology Specialist
Oğuz Kılınç, Chest Diseases Specialist
Özgür Karcıoğlu, Emergency Medicine Specialist
Serkan Yılmaz, Emergency Medicine Specialist
Ümit Yaşar Öztoprak, Family Doctor
Çağhan Kızıl, Neuroscience and Genetics Specialist
Ersin Yarış, Pharmacologist
Meram Can Saka, Psychiatrist
Murat Civaner, History of Medicine and Ethics
Kubilay Yalçınkaya, Environmental Health Technician
Aslı Odman, Social Science Expert
Dinçer Demirkent, Constitutional Lawyer
Ecehan Balta, Political Scientist
Nilgün Toker, Political Philosopher
Güçlü Yaman, Software Developer
Sinan Adıyaman, Orthopedics and Traumatology Specialist
Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Forensic Medicine Specialist
Vedat Bulut, Immunology Specialist

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