Zeynel Mungan
Zeynel Mungan (born December 21, 1952) is a Turkish citizen and Professor of Medicine, recognized for his academic achievements in the field of gastroenterology. Career. Zeynel Mungan, born in Diyarbakir, Turkey in 1952, received his medical degree at the Medical Faculty of Istanbul University in 1977. He was appointed to Associate Professor in 1988 and Professorship in 1995 in the same university. Between the years 1990 and 1992, Dr. Mungan worked as a Research Associate Professor at New Orleans, Tulane University and has been awarded the Kemal Akdamar GI Research Fellowship. He was Head of Gastroenterohepatology in Istanbul  University between 2005 and 2010 and President of the Istanbul Branch of Turkish Gastroenterology Association between 1999 and 2007. Dr. Mungan is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, Fellow of the European Board of Gastroenterology and a member of the Turkish Gastroenterology Association. He is the author of more than 100 papers published in international and Turkish journals and gastroenterelogy textbooks, mostly in the fields of endoscopy, GI peptides, pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), acid-peptic diseases and gastrointestinal motility. Dr. Mungan is also on the editorial board of "Gastroenterology Research and Practice , Best Research and Practice Clinical Gastroenterology", and "The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology". Family. He is married with two children and lives in Istanbul.