She holds a medical degree from Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Gunay-Aygun completed residencies in pediatrics at Hacettepe University Children’s Hospital and at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She completed an additional residency in medical genetics at Case Western Reserve University and a fellowship in biochemical genetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health before joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2008.