Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology. Graduated from Hacettepe University Medical School MD degree. In 1988 Started to pediatrics training in Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Faculty of Medicine , Dept of Pediatrics, Trabzon, Turkey. 1994, 1996 and 2002: became Assistant Professor, associate professor and Professor of Pediatrics in KTU , respectively. Completed Child Neurology Fellowship in Hacettepe University Medical Faculty , Ankara, Turkey in 1998.
Founded the Child Neurology Department, Pediatric EEG laboratory and Pediatric video-EEG Monitorisation Unite and the Sleep laboratory with departments of neurology, chest disease, psychiatry and ear-nose and throath in KTU. Also, founded The Trabzon Branch of Neuromuscular disorder Association of Turkey and Chief of the branch between 2000-2012. Organized “ IX. National Neuromuscular Diseases Symposium and 10 th National Turkish Child Neurology Congress and head of the Congress. She has been retired lecturer since 2016. She gives lectures as honorable lecturer in different universities in Ankara and Istanbul. She is vice president of Turkish Neuromuscular Research Association and board of Neuromuscular Research Center of Lokman Hekim University in Ankara and coordinator of the developmental screening test. Prof. Sonmez has published > 100 research papers from the area of Child Neurology which have been cited > 1500 times, (H index is 21 in Researchgate).
Her reseacrh interests are epilepsy, neurometabolic, neurogenetic, sleep and rare disorders,.and vitamin D associated neurological disorders.