BELGİN ERHAN

Professor Belgin Erhan is the Head Physician at PMR Department of Istanbul Medeniyet University, School of Medicine

She is the Chair of International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) Prevention Committee since 2021 and a Board Member of ISCoS. She is also a fellow at ISCoS

Prof. Erhan received her MD degree and completed her residency at Istanbul University in 1989 and 1995 respectively. In 1993 she worked as a visiting resident at West Los Angeles VA Medical Center as a part of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Multicampus PMR Residency Programme.

For the last 25 years, she has been writing, publishing and presenting her experiences, observations and trials about the rehabilitation of patients with severe neurological disorders especially SCI and related topics.
Produced more than 200 articles for national and international peer review journals.
Edited five books in the field of spinal cord injury rehabilitation and spasticity management.
She is the founder and the President of (national) Neurotoxin Society.
She is the President of Spinal Cord Injury Study Group of Turkish PMR Specialist Society since 2021. She is the chair of Pain and Spasticity SIG of ISCoS. She is the chair of the Spasticity Study Group of Turkish Society of PMR. She is a member of International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM), member of ISPRM Pain SIG and ISPRM Spasticity SIG. She is a member of European Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ESPRM), Turkish Society of PMR and Mediterranean Forum of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (MFPRM).
Led over 100 workshops and training symposiums on SCI management, ultrasound guided botulinum toxin injections, spasticity management, pain management, neurologic diseases rehabilitation and osteoporosis management.
Involved in the organization committees of numerous International meetings including: ISPRM World Congress 2009, ISCoS Meeting 2013 Istanbul, World Congress for Neurorehabilitation 2014, INEREM 2015, and ISNEREM 2016