Dr. Mehmet Cizmeci is a staff neonatologist at SickKids and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. He earned his medical degree from Istanbul University Medical School in 2004, followed by a pediatric residency and a neonatology fellowship. In 2017, he pursued a research fellowship in neonatal neurology followed by a neuroscience PhD at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Dr. Cizmeci joined SickKids as a clinical fellow in neonatal neurology in 2019 and received the Royal College Subspecialty Fellow Excellence Award upon completion. He then completed a two-year fellowship in Neuroplasticity at SickKids.

As a faculty member specializing in neonatal neurology, he focuses on the long-term effects of preterm and term brain injuries with a particular interest in predicting and optimizing neurodevelopmental outcomes. He is an active member of the Newborn Brain Society Education Committee and the Children’s Hospitals Network Consortium HIE working group.

Dr. Cizmeci is also dedicated to teaching and has consistently received teaching awards at the University of Toronto. In his non-academic moments, Mehmet enjoys exploring new places with his wife and two daughters. He describes himself as a coffee lover and a cat person.