Education and Specialization
1996 Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine - Master's Degree
2001 Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital - PhD/Specialty Proficiency
Experience
1996-1997 Fındıklı Central Health Center
1997-2001 Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital
2001-2002 Ankara Training and Research Hospital
2002-2007 Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital
2007-2010 İnönü University Faculty of Medicine
2012 İnönü University Faculty of Medicine, Subspecialist in Surgical Oncology
2010-2015 İnönü University Faculty of Medicine, Associate Professor
2015-2017 İnönü University Faculty of Medicine, Professor
2017-2021 Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, General Surgery - Head of the Division of Surgical Oncology, Professor
2021- Istanbul Aydın University Faculty of Medicine, General Surgery - Organ Transplantation, Professor
Experience Abroad
1- In the United States, at the Surgical Oncology Clinic, Magee-Womens Hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 10 months of training in sentinel node applications and ductoscopy in breast cancer as a National Cancer Institute Short-Term Scientist with a National Cancer Institute Research Scholarship. 2008 (10 months)
2- Training in Transplantation and Oncologic Surgery at Giessen-Marburg University, Germany, 2010 (1 month)
Awards
2003 Turkish Surgical Association - Sanofi Pharma Thrombosis Research Foundation 7th Research Project Competition encouragement award.
“The Importance of Insulin Resistance and VEGF-C in Lymph Node Metastasis of Breast Cancer: A Prospective Clinical Study”.
2005 Oral Presentation “Third Prize”. National Geriatrics Congress, Antalya.
“Factors Affecting Mortality and Morbidity in Elderly Patients with Fournier's Gangrene”.
2007 Oral Presentation “Second Prize”. National Breast Congress, Ankara.
“Vascular endothelial growth factors: Are they a risk factor in postmastectomy lymphedema?”.
2008 AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) Scholar-in-Training Award. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, USA.
“The Predictive Probabilty of Four Different Breast Cancer Nomograms for Non Sentinel Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis in Positive Sentinel Node Biopsy”.
2009 Pilot Grant Award. 6th International Symposium on the Intraductal Approach to Breast Cancer, Santa Monica, California, USA.
“Autoflourescence Ductoscopy for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer”.
During Professorship and Associate Professorship:
2013 Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for the 1000th Liver Transplant. April 2013.
2013 Best poster presentation award “Massive Hemorrhage fromRetropancreatic Portal Vein as a Complication of Thromboendovenectomy and Control with BalloonCatheterTamponade during Liver Transplantation.13. International Euroasian Congress of Surgery and Gastroenterology” Bucharest, Romania.
Professional Memberships
Turkish Surgical Society
Ankara Surgical Society
Ankara Breast Diseases Society
Federation of Breast Societies
Gastroenterological Surgery Society
Endoscopic Laparoscopic Surgery Society
American Society of Breast Cancer
International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists
Surgical Oncology Society (Board Membership)
Courses and Certificates
1. Panelist in the Surgery Days-7 (Breast–Endocrine) session, “Prediction of Non-Sentinel Lymph Node Positivity in Breast Cancer with a Nomogram”, 20 December 2008, Dicle University.
2. Panelist in Breast Surgery Panel No. 1 at the Uludağ University 3rd Current Approaches in General Surgery Meeting, “Clinical Significance of Micrometastasis and Isolated Tumor Cells in Sentinel Node Biopsy and Use of Nomograms”, 06 March 2009, Bursa.
3. Panelist in the “Breast Imaging” session of the 17th National Surgery Congress, 26-29 May 2010, Ankara
4. Her 2 portal “Approach to Atypical Ductal Epithelial Hyperplasias” 2011 Ankara. (E-Resource)
5. Turkish Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Association Regional Meeting, “Approach to Postoperative Complications of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.” Şanlıurfa 2011
6. Malatya Thyroid-Parathyroid Diseases Symposium. Surgical Approach to Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancers. 2011, Malatya
7. Transplantation 2011, 12-16 October, Antalya, Session Chair of the Oral Presentation Session.
8. Her 2 portal, article presentation “Current Approaches in Metastatic Breast Cancer” 2011 (E-Resource).
9. Panelist on the topic “Re-operation: When and How?” in the “Thyroid Surgery” session of the 18th National Surgery Congress, May 2012, Izmir.
10. Panelist on the topic “Nomogram Applications” in the “Approach to the Axilla in Breast Cancer” session of the 19th National Surgery Congress, April 2014, Antalya
11. Panelist on the topic “Approach Strategies for Recurrent Multinodular Goiter” at the 13th Medical Surgical Endocrinology Postgraduate Training Course and the 6th Endocrine Surgery Basic Training Workshop. (2014).
12. Approach to locally advanced breast cancer. İnönü University Faculty of Medicine, Malatya (2016).
13. Surgical Approach to Breast Cancer, Eskişehir (2018)
14. Surgical Treatment of Esophageal Cancer, Adana (2018)
15. Problems in Organ Transplantation from the Surgeon's Perspective (2019)
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