GUREL RESEARCH GROUP

Ogan Gurel MD

Dr. Ogan Gurel serves as BioHealth Innovation Specialist at the University of Texas – Arlington with academic appointments in the Department of Kinesiology in the College of Nursing & Health Innovation, the Department of Management in the College of Business, the Department of Philosophy & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, and the Department of Bioengineering in the College of Engineering. His career has ranged widely across medicine, scientific research, industry, and academia, working at companies and institutions such as IBM, Samsung, Booz Allen, Sg2, Sungkyunkwan University, DGIST, Roosevelt University, Harvard University, the Solbridge International School of Business (Korea), the University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University as well as many innovative startups. Prior to surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Gurel obtained an MD degree Alpha Omega Alpha from the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons (also doing graduate work in structural biology with Prof. Wayne Hendrickson, earning an MPhil degree) and received his bachelor’s degree in Biochemical Sciences cum laude from Harvard College working with Prof. Martin Karplus (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013). Between college and medical school Ogan served as a Visiting Researcher at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, working with Giuseppe Zaccai on the structure of membrane proteins. Authoring 14 peer-reviewed scholarly papers (as well as a novel, Waves), presenting nearly 200 conference proceedings, and co-inventor on ten patent applications (three granted), With a global imprint, Dr. Gurel has also given keynote addresses and other speeches at scientific and business conferences and seminars worldwide and has also served in humanitarian medical relief work, with the International Medical Corps in Macedonia during the Kosovo crisis of 1999 and in Gölcük/ Değirmendere, Turkey after the massive earthquake later that year. Throughout his career, Dr. Gurel has always sought to integrate science and art, having published a novel, Waves, that melds science into art, and teaching the mini-MD, a comprehensive overview of medicine, that brings art into science.