Prof. Filiz Öğce Aktaş

Prof. Filiz Öğce Aktaş

Prof. Filiz Öğce Aktaş
Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Izmir University of Economics

She graduated from Ege University School of Nursing. She completed her M.Sc. (1998) and Ph.D. (2004) in Surgical Nursing at the Institute of Health Sciences of the same university.

She worked as a nurse at Ege University Hospital Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic (1991–1999) and in the Chest Diseases Intensive Care Unit until 2001. She began her academic career as a Research Assistant at Izmir Atatürk School of Health in 2001, became Associate Professor in 2010, and spent four months working on wound care at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing (Australia).

In 2013 she contributed to structuring health programs at Izmir University of Economics and to establishing the Vocational School of Health Services and the Faculty of Health Sciences. She joined IUE when the Nursing Department opened in 2014 and became Professor in 2015. She served as Department Chair (2014–2019) and has been Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences since 2019. Her work focuses on the operating room, wound care, surgical site infections, and carbon footprint.

Since 2014 she has been President of the Turkish Surgical and Operating Room Nurses Association and represents Türkiye in EORNA and the Federation of Operating Room Nurses.