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The doctor is an experienced Turkish neurologist with over 20 years of practice. Specializing in the treatment of movement and behavioral disorders, genetic or metabolic problems, epilepsy, headaches, and developmental delays in infants, children, and adolescents, the doctor also provides neurological care for women during pregnancy if the fetus has any conditions.

The doctor practices at the Pediatric Neurology Department in Memorial Şişli Hospital. Educational background includes a degree in general medicine from Istanbul University, followed by specialties in pediatrics at Rainbow Babies And Children's Hospital and children's neurology at the University of Pittsburgh.

- Head of Department of Neurosurgery, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University in 2006 - 2009

- Member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Neurosurgery Association in 2007 - 2011

- Between 2007 - 2011 Istanbul University Institute of Neurological Sciences Directorate

- Member of the Turkish Neurosurgery Association qualification board in 2009 - 2013

- Bezmialem University Faculty of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery between 2011 - 2013

- Head of Neurovascular Group of Turkish Neurosurgery Association in 2014 - 2015

2020 - Present, Istanbul/Türkiye

MEMORIAL SISLI HOSPITAL

Orthopedics and Traumatology Specialist

2013 - 2020, Istanbul/Türkiye

NISA HOSPITAL

Orthopedics and Traumatology Specialist

2009 - 2013, Istanbul/Türkiye

MEDILIFE HOSPITAL

Orthopedics and Traumatology Specialist

2008 - 2009, Diyarbakir/Türkiye

DIYARBAKIR MILITARY HOSPITAL

Orthopedics and Traumatology Specialist

2004 - 2008, Istanbul/Türkiye

GÜLHANE MILITARY MEDICAL ACADEMY

Orthopedics and Traumatology Specialist Training

2003 - 2004, Kocaeli/Türkiye

TCG GÖKSU NAVAL FORCES COMMAND

Medical Officer, General Practitioner

2002 - 2003, Muğla/Türkiye

TCG MUTUAL NAVAL FORCES COMMAND

Medical Officer, General Practitioner

2001 - 2002, Ankara/Türkiye

ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL

Medical Officer, General Practitioner

Medical Experience

2014 -Currently

MEMORIAL ETİLER MEDICAL CENTER

General Surgery Specialist – Breast and Thyroid Surgery /

İstanbul

2010 - 2014 NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY FACULTYOF

MEDICINE

General Surgery Head of Department / Toledo, Ohio

2005 - 2010 MEMORIAL ŞİŞLİ HOSPITAL

General Surgery Specialist – Breast and Thyroid Surgery /

İstanbul

1998 - 2010 S.B. HASEKİ HOSPITAL

2. Surgery Clinic Assistant Director / İstanbul

1989 - 1998 S.B. TAKSİM HOSPITAL

1. Surgery Clinic Head Assisstant / İstanbul

1988 - 1989 S.B. ARAÇ SAĞLIK MERKEZİ

Health Center Physician / Kastamonu

1987 - 1988 S.B. SİVRİLER HEALTH CLINIC

Health Center Physician / Zonguldak
 

Medical Education

1992 - 1998 ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY CERRAHPAŞA MEDICAL

FACULTY

/ İstanbul/Turkey

1989 - 1994 S.B. TAKSİM HOSPITAL

/ İstanbul/Turkey

The doctor is a highly accomplished general surgeon with 41 years of experience, specializing in oncological surgeries. Expertise includes treating colon cancer, thyroid cancer, obesity, diseases of the parathyroid gland, and toxic goiter. Proficient in procedures such as thyroidectomy, hernia surgery, hemorrhoid band surgery, colonoscopy, single hole cholecystectomy, and laparoscopy.

He has contributed significantly to scientific research with approximately 200 published articles and has authored four books. The doctor completed his specialization and undergraduate degree at Hacettepe University in 1980.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oğuzhan BABACAN completed his undergraduate, specialty and sub-specialty education at GATA Military Medical Faculty/Ankara. After becoming a specialist in Pediatrics, he worked in the field of Social Pediatrics for two years, where Healthy Baby Monitoring and vaccine follow-up were carried out. Then, she completed her subspecialty training in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and continued her studies in the field of pediatric blood and cancer diseases. In addition to the treatment of children suffering from leukemia, lymphoma, solid tumors and other blood diseases, she has been working in the Bone Marrow Transplantation (Transplant) Unit for 13 years in Allogeneic (unrelated and intrafamilial), Autologous (from the patient himself) and Haploidentical (partially HLA compatible) hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In 2018, he received the title of Associate Professor in the field of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Science/Art.

MEDICAL AREAS OF INTEREST

Healthy baby follow-up and vaccinations

Lymph node enlargement

Pediatric patients with anemia (anemia)

Leukemia

Lymphoma

Bone Marrow Transplant

ITP

Thalassemias

Hemophiliacs

Solid tumors

Hemangioma

Childhood blood disorders

Children with frequent infections

Fever of unknown origin

Malnutrition in children

Prof. Dr. Ilknur Erenler Bayraktar is a General Surgeon with expertise in colorectal surgery, advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgery, and gastrointestinal oncology. She earned her medical degree and completed her general surgery residency at Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Bayraktar has international experience from the Cleveland Clinic Digestive Disease Institute in the USA and Klinikum rechts der Isar in Germany. In 2021, she received the European Board of Coloproctology (EBSQ-C) specialist certification, highlighting her skills in coloproctology.

She is known for her work in minimally invasive surgical techniques. Dr. Bayraktar is an active member of the European Society of Coloproctology and the European Surgical Society of Oncology.

2019 - Present, Istanbul/Istanbul/Türkiye

MEMORIAL ATASEHIR HOSPITAL

Brain and Nerve Surgery Specialist

2019 - Present, Istanbul/Istanbul/Türkiye

ISTANBUL BIRUNI UNIVERSITY

Specialist in the Department of Brain and Nerve Surgery

2017 - 2019, Istanbul/Istanbul/Türkiye

KOC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Specialist in the Department of Brain and Nerve Surgery

2015 - 2017, Istanbul/Istanbul/Türkiye

ISTANBUL BIRUNI UNIVERSITY

Specialist in the Department of Brain and Nerve Surgery

2013 - 2015, Istanbul/Istanbul/Türkiye

ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY CERRAHPAŞA MEDICAL FACULTY

Specialist in the Department of Brain and Nerve Surgery

2010 - 2013, Istanbul/Istanbul/Türkiye

BEZM-I ALEM FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY

Specialist in the Department of Brain and Nerve Surgery

2008 - 2009, Diyarbakir/Diyarbakir/Türkiye

SILVAN DOCTOR YUSUF AZIZOGLU STATE HOSPITAL

Specialist in the Department of Brain and Nerve Surgery

2001 - 2007, Istanbul/Istanbul/Türkiye

ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY CERRAHPAŞA MEDICAL FACULTY

Specialist in the Department of Brain and Nerve Surgery

2021 - Currently MEMORIAL ŞİŞLİ HOSPITAL

Associate Professor of General Surgery / Istanbul

2018 - 2021 ISTANBUL FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE HOSPITAL,

SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor of General Surgery / Istanbul

2014 - 2018 ACIBADEM UNIVERSITY ATAKENT HOSPITAL

Assistant Professor / Istanbul

2012 - 2013 TDV 29 MAY HOSPITAL

General Surgery Specialist / Istanbul

Dr. Yavuz Yalcin is a specialist in endocrinology and metabolic diseases at Memorial Sisli Hospital in Istanbul, where he has worked since 2014. He previously served at Memorial Etiler, Private Ordu Medical Park, and Ordu State Hospital. He completed an endocrinology fellowship at Ankara Numune from 2009 to 2012. Before that, he finished an internal medicine residency at SSK Goztepe and earned his medical degree from Akdeniz University.

Academic work includes 8 international and 10 national publications. He has given 10 international and 20 national presentations and attended 39 scientific meetings. He holds the Internal Medicine Board certification (2002), Hemodialysis Responsible Physician certification (2005; renewed 2013), and Occupational Physician certification (1998). He completed thyroid and neck ultrasonography courses in 2012–2013. He is a member of the Society of Internal Medicine, the Metabolic Syndrome Society, and the Turkish Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism.

2003 - Present, Istanbul/Istanbul/Türkiye

MEMORIAL ANKARA HOSPITAL

Nuclear Medicine Specialist

2003 - 2003, Erzincan/Erzincan/Türkiye

B. ERZINCAN STATE HOSPITAL

Nuclear Medicine Specialist

1994 - 1995, Samsun/Samsun/Türkiye

SAMSUN HAVZA SEYHLER HEALTH CENTER

General Practitioner

Dr. Nihal Durmus Kocaaslan is an Associate Professor of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery at Marmara University. Kocaaslan holds TPRECD and EBOPRAS certifications (2013). Kocaaslan became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) in 2021. Kocaaslan has served as a Forensic Expert at the Ministry of Justice since 2019. Kocaaslan earned a PhD in Forensic Medicine in 2020.

Expertise includes orthognathic, maxillofacial, and jaw surgery, as well as cleft lip and palate and other congenital anomalies. Kocaaslan also specializes in breast and chest wall reconstruction, chronic wound repair, and aesthetic surgery.

International training includes reconstructive microsurgery at RWTH Aachen. It also includes breast, face, and body aesthetics at clinics in the United States and cleft care at Seattle Children’s. Kocaaslan trained in craniosynostosis at Erasmus University Rotterdam and in maxillofacial and orthognathic surgery at St. George’s Hospital. Kocaaslan is a board member of EPCD and active in wound care and cleft associations. Memberships include ACS, ISAPS, the American Cleft Palate Foundation, and AO Craniofacial.

The doctor is a distinguished Orthopedic Surgeon with 19 years of experience in treating musculoskeletal conditions and injuries. Recognized for his expertise, he has received several awards, including the Turkish Association of Orthopedics and Traumatology Award of Best Verbal Declaration in 2015.

He is a member of numerous professional organizations such as the International Society of Arthroscopy Knee Surgery & Orthopaedic Sport Medicine and the European Society of Sports Traumatology Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy. The doctor completed his medical education and specialization at GATA Faculty of Medicine and pursued a fellowship in Orthopedics and Traumatology at Wake Forest University in the USA.

Dr. Gokhan Ertas is a Professor of Cardiology with more than 20 years of clinical and academic experience. He has published 52 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He has also contributed 3 chapters to national and international books. Dr. Ertas has presented 20 papers at international meetings and 25 at national meetings. He is dedicated to advancing cardiovascular medicine.

He is a member of the Turkish Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, and the Stem Cell and Cellular Therapies Association. Dr. Ertas is recognized for his academic work and active role in the global cardiology community.