Korkut Yaltkaya
Korkut Yaltkaya (27 May 1938 - 23 December 2001) was a Turkish neuropsychiatrist, electrophysiologist and academician.
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| Born | 27 May 1938 |
| Died | 23 December 2001 (aged 63) Antalya, Turkey |
| Alma mater | Ankara University Faculty of Medicine (M.D.) |
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| Fields | Clinical neurophysiology |
| Institutions | Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine |
| Thesis | Mechanical and Electrophysiological Parameters of Normally, Stiff, Rigid Patellar Reflex (1971) |
He was born in İstanbul on 27 May 1938. After graduating from Ankara Atatürk High School in 1955, he graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 1962. In 1966, he became a neuropsychiatrist at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine. In 1967, he worked on electromyography at the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory of the University of Copenhagen with a Danish government scholarship. He became a docent at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 1971 with his thesis titled Mechanical and Electrophysiological Parameters of Normally, Stiff, Rigid Patellar Reflex. Yaltkaya, who was promoted to professorship on 28 September 1979, was assigned to establish the Department of Neurology at Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine in Antalya. He was the head of this department for 22 years until his death. Yaltkaya has written around 300 domestic and foreign articles and organized clinical neurophysiology congresses at national level twice. He was known as one of Turkey's two most important neurophysiologists.
Korkut Yaltkaya was the son of Mehmet Şerefettin Yaltkaya, the 2nd president of religious affairs of Turkey.
After his death
Two days after his death on 23 December 2001, a ceremony was held at Akdeniz University for him. Since 23 December 2006, a clinical neurophysiology symposium on behalf of Korkut Yaltkaya has been organized by Akdeniz University every december.