- Founder and first Head of the Mirko Tos International Ear and Hearing Research Center, the first research and application center in its field in Turkey (2018-2022)
- President of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) (2023-2025); Vice President (2021-2023); Board Member (2018-2027)
- Chair of the EASE Regional Branches Committee (2021-2023)
- Member of the EASE Education Committee (2021-Present)
- Chair of the EASE Turkey Chapter (2018-2022)
- Secretary General of the Balkan ENT and Head and Neck Surgery (HNS) Federation, which includes the national ENT societies of 10 Balkan countries (2014-2022; re-elected: 2022-2030)
- Board Member of the International Cochlear Implant Society (ICIS) (2022-Present)
- Board Member of the Otology Neurotology Society (ONO-DER) (2022-Present)
- Board Member of the Turkish ENT-HNS Society (2012-2014)
- Advisory Board Member of the Turkish ENT-HNS Society (2010-2012)
- Scientific Board Member of the Turkish ENT-HNS Society (2020-Present)
- International Working Group Member of the Turkish ENT-HNS Society (2022-Present)
- President of the Turkish ENT-HNS Society 2022 National Congress
- Founder and Past President of the Trakya ENT-HNS Society (2007-2009&2020-2022)
- Chair of the Education Committee of the Trakya Region for the Ministry of Health Newborn Hearing Screening Program (2008-2022)
- Chair of the Trakya University Cochlear Implant Council (2011-2022)
- Turkey Representative of the ENT Section of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) (2012-2020)
- Member of the Scientific Board of TR Index, ULAKBİM, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) (2018-Present)
- Held various editorial positions between 2004 and 2018 at the Balkan Medical Journal, the only journal among Turkish medical faculty journals indexed in SCIE. During the period as Editor-in-Chief, the journal was accepted into Medline, and its impact factor rose above 1, moving it up to the 3rd quartile.
- Editor-in-Chief of the international ENT-HNS journal Balkan ORL-HNS (2022-Present)
- Has organized many national and international workshops, symposia and conferences on Ear, Nose and Throat, Otology, Audiology, scientific writing, editing, journal management and publication ethics.
- More than 100 publications in the field of ear, nose and throat, mostly published in international journals, as well as various works on scientific publishing and underwater medicine.
- More than 250 presentations, as well as talks given predominantly at international scientific meetings as an invited speaker or instructor.
- Received the Trakya University “Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award,” the “Certificate of Appreciation” (almost every year) and the “Science Award,” the university's most prestigious award.
- Awarded the “Researcher of the Year Award” by the Turkish Underwater Research Society.
- Honored by the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery as a “Goodwill Ambassador” representing Turkey and the Balkans.
- Worked at the University of Copenhagen (2000) with a Danish Government scholarship, awarded to only two academics from Turkey in the field of Clinical Medicine, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami Ear Institute with a Fulbright scholarship (2008-2009).
- Received many best poster awards at national and international congresses.
- Holds two patents in the field of otology-neurotology and audiology, one of them international: “Dual-Channel Otoacoustic Emission Device” and “A novel electrode frequency coding method to promote spatial selectivity and speech discrimination in cochlear implants.”
- Main clinical areas of interest:
- Minimally invasive middle ear surgery through the ear canal speculum,
- Surgery for chronic otitis and its sequelae in children and adults,
- Treatment of otitis media with effusion,
- Cholesteatoma surgery,
- Otosclerosis surgery,
- Treatment of Eustachian tube dysfunction,
- Surgery for external and middle ear atresia,
- Cochlear implantation surgery,
- Treatment of hearing loss,
- Treatment of tinnitus and vertigo,
- Treatment of peripheral facial paralysis,
- Adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy,
- Parotid surgery,
- Treatment of neck masses in children and adults,
- Septoplasty and endoscopic sinus surgery,
- Surgical treatment of laryngeal nodules and polyps,
- Treatment of early-stage laryngeal cancer.
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