Nigar Dursun, MD

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Dr. Nigar Dursun is a professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) serving as a director in a connected setting of the Medical Faculty PMR Department, Occupational Therapy Graduate Programs at Kocaeli University/Turkey. She graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, trained in PMR between 1987 and 1991 at Ankara Rehabilitation Center, and attended the residency training programs of Thomas Jefferson University and Magee Rehabilitation Center. By the Scholarship of the Danish Government she joined the fellowship program of Copenhagen University Hornbaek Rehabilitation Center and Department of Neurophysiology. Dr. Dursun worked closely with the German Red Cross, Project Hope and Mother Child Education Aware after the big 1999 Marmara earthquake for the establishment of Izmit Rehabilitation Center and afterwards with Professor Gretchen Stone - Shenandoah University for the establishment of the first Turkish Occupational Therapy School in 2002. Dr. Dursun has more than 60 peer reviewed publications and carries on her clinical practice and national-international clinical researches on neurologic rehabilitation, activity based treatment approaches, spasticity management, botulinum toxin treatments and adjunctive interventions to botulinum toxin injections in patients with stroke and cerebral palsy. She teaches classes to medical students, resident doctors of PMR, MS and PhD degrees.

Kocaeli University Medical Faculty

Kocaeli, Turkey