Meral Kayikcioglu is a cardiologist and lipid specialist at Ege University Medical School. She has been running the Lipid & Prevention Clinic since 1996 and the Young MI Clinic since 2000.

Meral’s research interests include atherosclerosis, cardiovascular prevention, lipids, genetic dyslipidemias, premature myocardial infarction, hereditary thrombophilia, and cardiovascular involvement in rare diseases. Meral is leading several national registries on Cardiovascular and Rare Diseases, including familial hypercholesterolemia registries (A-HIT1 & A-HIT2), a registry of premature myocardial infarction in Turkey (A-HIT3), and TURK-MI.

Meral served as the National CVD Prevention Coordinator of Turkey for EACPR from 2009 to 2022. She presented Turkey in the Red Alert on Women’s Heart Project and worked as principal and co-investigator in many CV prevention projects including Euroaspire, FHSC, HICC Registry, lipid clinical network, and others. She is experienced in patient education programs on CVD prevention and has been involved in several prevention projects in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.  Meral chaired the Turkish Atherosclerosis, Lipids, and Prevention Working Group (WG) (2014 2016). She served as an Executive Board member of the Turkish Society of Cardiology (TSC) (2016-2018). She has also been involved in several projects and WGs of TSC, including Women & Heart Health WG, Guidelines Committee Member, WG on Relationships between TSC and MoH, and Project Grants WG.