Tuba Kockar Kizilirmak, MD

Tuba Kockar Kizilirmak is a graduate of the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine. She completed her training in residency in pediatrics, and fellowship in pediatric pulmonology in Istanbul, Türkiye. Afterward, she relocated to the United States following her aspiration of becoming a physician-scientist. She served as a research specialist at the University of Arizona. She focused on epidemiologic studies of childhood asthma to identify early life determinants of childhood asthma by utilizing data from the Tucson Children's Study cohort.

Currently, Dr. Kizilirmak is completing an additional pediatric pulmonary fellowship at Yale University, aiming to become a well-rounded physician-scientist. Her primary research interest focuses on airway inflammation in pediatric respiratory diseases, particularly in cystic fibrosis (CF). She has presented her work at both national and international conferences. During this fellowship, she was also selected for the Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP) Research Fellowship. She has received multiple awards from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), including first and second-year fellowship awards, the PSDP CFF fellow, and now the CFF fourth-year fellowship award. She has also been awarded an internal grant, the Yale Pediatric Scholar Award.

Her long-term goal is to gain insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying airway inflammation in CF, which may lead to developing new therapeutic options. Dr. Kizilirmak is dedicated and passionate about providing the best possible care to children with respiratory diseases nationally and globally.