Tulek Zeliha

Zeliha Tulek graduated from Istanbul University Florence Nightingale School of Nursing. She got her master and PhD degrees from the same institution. She initiated her work in neurology with participation in a project for improvement of quality of nursing care in a newly establishing stroke unit in 1999. She got her PhD degree in 2006 with the dissertation titled “Quality of Life in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis”. Her main interests are stroke and multiple sclerosis as well as other neurological diseases. She carried out researches on quality of life, caregiver burden, nutrition, quality indicators etc. She participated in many national meetings in area of neurology as a speaker and member of organizing committee. She is a founding board member of National Association of Neurology Nursing. Since 2008 she also is a board member of European Association of Neuroscience Nurses. Recently she has joined board of Turkish Multiple Sclerosis Society. She has been working as a faculty member in Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing in Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa since 1995.