Turhan Sofuoğlu

President of AAHD

Emergency Disaster Ambulance Physicians Association

Izmir, Türkiye

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I'm a medical doctor. I responded to disaster and prehospital emergencies. Expert in Horizon projects esp. security.

My organisation

AAHD is a medical end user (first responder) NGO established in 2004, in Turkey and participated to 8 EC Projects as full partner since 2008. TeamAware (H2020-DRS), ASSISTANCE (H2020-DRS), iProcureSecurity PCP (H2020- GM), iProcureSecurity CSA (H2020, GM), NEXES (H2020, DRS), SOTERIA (7th FP, Security), BECAN (7th FP, Health), BeSeCu (7th FP, Security), CRM4EMS and SMS4EMS (ERASMUS + KA220). AAHD provides RTD and innovation; and training activities in the fields of Emergency Medical Services (including first aid); Disaster response and preparedness; mobile health care. AAHD highly experienced in responding to a broad range of medical emergencies from routine medical responses like basic life support, advanced cardiac life support, paediatric life support, trauma life support to and different kinds of disasters that involved field triage, transportation of huge amount of injured people. Most of the members actively directed medical efforts and responded to the most devastating earthquakes, 1995 Izmir Flood, CBRN incidents, terrorist attacks, major fires and mass causality incidents in Turkiye. AAHD members made major contributions to the Turkish EMS and Disaster Medical Response regulations.
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About me

He worked as a physician and manager in the field of pre-hospital emergency health services for 28 years. He served as the Provincial Health Deputy Director responsible for health services in emergencies and disasters in Izmir and undertook the establishment of the Izmir 112 Ambulance Service for more than 25 years. Since 2004, he has been the Chairman of the Board of the Association of Emergency Disaster Ambulance Physicians. He has worked as a coordinator in many national and international projects in the fields of Emergency Health Services and Disaster Medicine and has many scientific publications.

My organisation

Emergency Disaster Ambulance Physicians Association

https://www.aahd.org.tr

AAHD is a medical end user (first responder) NGO established in 2004, in Turkey and participated to 8 EC Projects as full partner since 2008. TeamAware (H2020-DRS), ASSISTANCE (H2020-DRS), iProcureSecurity PCP (H2020- GM), iProcureSecurity CSA (H2020, GM), NEXES (H2020, DRS), SOTERIA (7th FP, Security), BECAN (7th FP, Health), BeSeCu (7th FP, Security), CRM4EMS and SMS4EMS (ERASMUS + KA220).

AAHD provides RTD and innovation; and training activities in the fields of Emergency Medical Services (including first aid); Disaster response and preparedness; mobile health care.

AAHD highly experienced in responding to a broad range of medical emergencies from routine medical responses like basic life support, advanced cardiac life support, paediatric life support, trauma life support to and different kinds of disasters that involved field triage, transportation of huge amount of injured people.

Most of the members actively directed medical efforts and responded to the most devastating earthquakes, 1995 Izmir Flood, CBRN incidents, terrorist attacks, major fires and mass causality incidents in Turkiye. AAHD members made major contributions to the Turkish EMS and Disaster Medical Response regulations.

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Skills

  • Disaster management
  • EMS
  • FR End User
  • expert in security projects
  • Pilot Testing
  • ambulance
  • health provider

Interests

  • DRS
  • SSRI
  • Infra
  • PCP
  • CSA

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Call topics of interest

HORIZON-CL3-2024-SSRI-01-02: Accelerating uptake through open proposals for advanced SME innovationHORIZON-CL3-2024-SSRI-01-01: Demand-led innovation through public procurementHORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01-05: Cost-effective sustainable technologies and crisis management strategies for RN large-scale protection of population and infrastructures after a nuclear blast or nuclear facility incidentHORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01-04: Hi-tech capacities for crisis response and recovery after a natural-technological (NaTech) disasterHORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01-03: Harmonised / Standard protocols for the implementation of alert and impact forecasting systems as well as transnational emergency management in the areas of high-impact weather / climatic and geological disastersHORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01-02: Open TopicHORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01-01: Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of chemical, biological and radiological threats to agricultural production, feed and food processing, distribution and consumptionHORIZON-CL3-2024-INFRA-01-03: Advanced real-time data analysis used for infrastructure resilienceHORIZON-CL3-2024-INFRA-01-02: Resilient and secure urban planning and new tools for EU territorial entitiesHORIZON-CL3-2024-INFRA-01-01: Open Topic

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    Medical FR, Expert in DRS Projects

    WP, Task Leader.. (KPI, User Requirement and Use Case Provider) Conducting field surveys, focus groups, workshops and dissemination/communic

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    Turhan Sofuoğlu

    President of AAHD at Emergency Disaster Ambulance Physicians Association

    Izmir, Türkiye