Mustafa Safa Pepele received his M.D. degree in Medicine from Ankara University in 2007, and completed his Emergency Medicine specialty training in 2013. He joined İnönü University (Malatya, Türkiye) in 2013 and has been working there as a faculty member since 2024. His research topics mainly include: emergency medicine, trauma and injury epidemiology, hemoptysis (clinical characteristics and mortality predictors), clinical risk stratification and prognostic modeling, biomarkers in acute care (e.g., pulmonary embolism/critical illness), and AI-assisted decision support in the emergency department.