The Department of Forensic Medicine is one of the first departments established at Gaziantep University Faculty of Medicine, founded in 1987. Dr. Zerrin Erkol served as the founding faculty member until 1998. In 1997, Dr. Ergin Dülger, appointed from Elazığ University, became the Head of the Department and held this position until 2016. Dr. Aysun Baransel Isır, who began her career as the first research assistant in the Department of Forensic Medicine, continues her work as the Head of the Department, a position she assumed in 2017. Dr. Murat Akbaba continues his academic career, which he started in 2015.
Our Department, with its academic staff, provides theoretical and practical training in forensic medicine internships to students of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Law. Since its establishment, our Department of Forensic Medicine has provided official expert witness services to judicial authorities. Forensic medicine outpatient services are actively provided. The main reports provided include those related to forensic traumatology, forensic psychiatry, bone age determination, disability, child abuse, and sexual assault. It supports post-mortem examinations, investigations, and/or autopsies in death cases reported to the Gaziantep Courthouse. Furthermore, it performs other official expert witness duties for judicial authorities. As a multidisciplinary department bridging the gap between medicine and law, two indispensable elements in human life, it strives to provide reporting services in all forensic-medical matters. Our department has adopted objective and standardized work, the fundamental principles of scientific rigor, as its guiding principle in its practices. In addition to forensic medical applications, training programs are actively conducted in multidisciplinary areas such as child abuse and substance addiction. Since 2019, legal consultancy services have been provided to answer all kinds of legal questions and problems, and with the opening of the Forensic Toxicology laboratory in 2020, our department has added another service to its judicial services.
ACADEMIC STAFF
PROF.DR. AYSUN BARANSEL ISIR (ANABİLİM DALI BAŞKANI)
Doç. Dr. MURAT AKBABA