Prof. Dr. Emine Handan Zeren

Prof. Dr. Emine Handan Zeren is a pathologist in the Pathology Department at Acibadem Maslak Hospital in İstanbul. Her professional interests cover pulmonary pathology, mediastinal pathology, gynecological pathology, breast pathology, surgical pathology, cytopathology and transmission electron microscopy. Her work supports the diagnostic evaluation of tissue and cell samples. She has been part of Acıbadem Healthcare Services since 2009 and works in Turkish and English.

Dr. Zeren graduated from Ege University Faculty of Medicine in 1984 and completed her training in medical pathology at Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine in 1990, where she became Assistant Associate Professor in 1991, Associate Professor in 1995 and Professor of Medical Pathology in 2001. She chaired the Department of Pathology at Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine from 2004 to 2009, served on the Faculty Administrative Board from 2002 to 2004 and worked in the Transmisyon Elektron Mikroskopi Laboratuarı from 1994 to 2004. Her training abroad included a Calendar Binford Fellowship in the Department of Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, D.C. (1992–1994), training in the use and repair of the transmission electron microscope at Zeiss in Oberkohen, Germany (1991), and periods at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale (1996, pulmonary pathology), Long Island Jewish Medical Center (1997, surgical pathology and cytopathology), AFIP (1999, pulmonary pathology), University of Maryland Medical System (2001) and MD Anderson Cancer Research Center (2003), the latter two in gynecological and breast pathology. She is a member of the European Society of Pathology (ESP), the European Respiratory Society (ERS), the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) and the Pulmonary Pathology Society (PPS), and is a former Chair of the European Pulmonary Pathology Working Group. She is a founding member of the Çukurova Pathology Association and the Çukurova Breast Diseases Association and belongs to the Turkish Pathology Association, the Ankara Pathology Association, the Türk Akciğer Kanseri Association (TAKD) and the Thoracic Association, where she formerly chaired the Pulmonary Pathology Working Group.

Clinical focus

Dr. Zeren’s diagnostic work centers on pulmonary and mediastinal pathology, including the assessment of lung and pleural specimens. Her published work in this area addresses the causes of pulmonary granulomas, benign and malignant mesothelial proliferation, and molecular markers such as p16/cdkn2a, EGFR and PDGFR in pleural malignant mesothelioma.

She also evaluates specimens in gynecological and breast pathology, with publications on cervical cytological abnormalities, Müllerian adenosarcoma of the uterine cervix, fallopian tube carcinoma and ovarian carcinoma. Her broader practice includes surgical pathology, cytopathology and transmission electron microscopy, which may be used to examine tissue at the ultrastructural level when this is relevant to a diagnosis.

How Dr. Zeren works with international patients

Dr. Zeren communicates in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for other languages. The Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior pathology reports, slides and imaging, arranges appointments and organises the hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and symptoms, a review of existing imaging, reports and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the options. Video consultation is available for international patients who wish to discuss their case before or instead of traveling to İstanbul.