Hakan S. Orer received an MD degree from Hacettepe University Medical School (Ankara, Turkey) in 1986. He then completed his PhD thesis in Raul Laguzz's laboratory at INSERM U 288 Neurobiologie Moléculaire et Fonctionelle (Paris, France), as a recipient of French Government scholarship (1989-91) and received a PhD degree in pharmacology in 1992 from Hacettepe University. He spent two years (1993-95) as a post-doctoral researcher at Gerard L. Gebber's laboratory at Michigan State University (E. Lansing, Michigan) and joined the Department of Pharmacology at Hacettepe University Medical School as Assistant Professor. He later obtained Associate Professor title in 1998, and became a full professor in 2003 at the same department.
Hakan S. Orer served as the director (dean) of the graduate studies in allied health sciences from 2003 to 2012 at Hacettepe University where he was responsible for the administration of more than 130 graduate programs. He is currently the head of laboratory animal resources and transgenic core (first comprehensive core in Turkish Universities) at Hacettepe Medical School and the chairman of All University Animal Experiments Ethics Committee. He is also a member of the National Ethics Committee for Animal Experiments and The National Commission for Bioethics (UNESCO).
He served as treasurer of Turkish Pharmacological Society between 2003-2009. Hakan S. Orer's main research interests are the autonomic control of the blood pressure and the generation of sympathetic tone. He has been a long-term collaborator of Susan M. Barman and Gerard L. Gebber of the Michigan State University. Using electrophysiological techniques, brain stem microinjections and signal analysis paradigms he has contributed in several studies to elucidate the role of rostral ventrolateral medulla and lateral tegmental field in the control of baroreceptor reflexes and the generation of sympathetic rhythms. Other fields of interest include rational pharmacotherapy education, bioethics, bioinformatics and transgenic mice models. Hakan S. Orer is recipient of Sandoz (Novartis) Science Award (1987) and Turkish Scientific and Technique Research Council Junior Scientist Award (1998).
