Dr Tuba Kızılkaya, PhD Midwife and working as an Assistant Professor at Balikesir University. She graduated from İnönü University’s Midwifery Department. After two years of clinical midwifery practice, she started to work as an academic staff.

Her master’s thesis was about women’s fasting times before c-section and doctoral thesis is about the woman-centered care model of midwifery. Dr. Kızılkaya’s research interests include nonpharmacological techniques during pain, woman and family centred care, postpartum period and mental health.

She is also a member of Turkish Midwives Association and Independent Midwifery Association.