A.Fuat Kalyoncu

Dr. Kalyoncu was born in Eskişehir in 1959. He graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine in 1982 and, after completing his compulsory service as a physician for the Malaria Control Regional Directorate in Erzincan, entered the Department of Chest Diseases at Hacettepe Faculty of Medicine to train as a specialist in chest diseases. After this residency, in 1989-1990, he undertook two years of subspecialty training in Allergic Diseases at Uppsala University in Sweden. He is currently Head of the Division of Allergic & Immunological Diseases in the Department of Chest Diseases at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. He is also a faculty member of the Division of Occupational Diseases in the same department, a faculty member of the Division of Non-Communicable Diseases at the Institute of Public Health, and a board member of the Hacettepe University Mesothelioma and Medical Geology Application and Research Center. His research covers the epidemiology of chest and allergic diseases, asthma, allergic rhinitis, drug allergy and lung diseases caused by environmental asbestos. He is currently a board member of the Turkish Thoracic Society and a member of the Turkish National Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The document’s