Rate My Professor Zeynep Pekel

Zeynep Pekel serves as a Research Assistant in the Faculty of Medicine at Dokuz Eylul University, affiliated with the Department of Internal Medicine Sciences, Division of Family Medicine. She completed her undergraduate medical education at Izmir University of Economics Faculty of Medicine from 2017 to 2023. Since 2025, she has been pursuing specialty training in medicine at Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine.

Pekel has contributed to research examining sex-based differences in cardiometabolic and inflammatory risk patterns among adults with obesity. As lead author, she presented findings from a study of over 1,100 patients at the European Congress on Obesity in 2026, highlighting variations in visceral fat accumulation and metabolic responses between men and women. Her professional email address is zeynep.pekel@deu.edu.tr.