Assoc Prof Süheyl Poçan
Istanbul (Türkiye)
Süheyl Poçan is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Radiology at Istanbul Nişantaşı University Faculty of Medicine, and former Deputy Chief Physician at BHT Clinic Istanbul Tema Hospital, the Faculty’s principal affiliated training hospital, Türkiye. He is the founder of MedGnosis, a health technology company developing artificial intelligence–based clinical decision support and quality assurance systems for radiology, pathology and psychiatry, and of Alyam Health Services, providing radiology consultancy services. He is a member of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the Turkish Society of Radiology and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.
Süheyl Poçan obtained his Medical Degree and completed his residency in Radiology at Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA), Ankara, and holds a master’s degree in health management. He served as a medical officer in the Turkish Armed Forces, leaving the army with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Medical Corps), before continuing his academic and clinical career in Istanbul.
He is the author of a textbook on transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (2025) and of two book chapters, and serves as a peer reviewer for Frontiers in Medicine, the European Archives of Medical Research and the Türkiye Klinikleri medical journals.
His research focuses on advanced magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance elastography and the integration of artificial intelligence into radiological practice, with particular emphasis on the auditing of diagnostic reports against professional reporting standards. Alongside his clinical and research work, he coordinates the clinical rotation programme for fourth- and fifth-year medical students and interns at the Faculty’s affiliated hospital. His work within AMSE centres on the governance of artificial intelligence in medical education: he has proposed the development of a framework for AI assurance in medical education, addressing how medical schools can responsibly govern the use of artificial intelligence and prepare their graduates to assess and work with AI-generated outputs, and how such a framework can support medical schools across Europe and neighbouring regions.
Assoc Prof Süheyl Poçan was appointed a co-opted member of the AMSE Executive Committee in 2026, with a particular remit in artificial intelligence and medical education.