Meet the editors

Özgür Karcıoğlu graduated from the residency program at the Department of Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Medical School, Turkey, in 1998. He obtained an International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Penn State University in 2005. He is currently chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Taksim Education and Research Hospital, Turkey. He has served as a founder and board member of the Emergency

Medical Association of Turkey since 1995. His research interests include resuscitation, advanced life support, pain management, airway emergencies, disaster medicine, trauma and toxicology, and diagnosis and management of COVID-19. He has published more than 160 articles in scientific journals, and his h-index is 24 in the year 2022. In addition to four edited volumes with IntechOpen, he has authored three books, *Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19, Cardiac Care in Medical Practice and Acute Abdominal Pain,* published by Bentham Science Publishers.

Funda Karbek Akarca graduated from the Department of Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, in 2005. She worked as an emergency physician at the İzmir Atatürk Training and Research Hospital from 2006 to 2010. She has been a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Ege University since 2010. She was the founding member of the ultrasonography working group of the Emergency Medical

Association of Turkey, serving as its chairman for two terms. She also works as an instructor in disaster medicine and critical care working groups. She has published 35 articles and ten book chapters and edited three books.
