Alp Gürkan
- Specialization: General surgeon
- 45 years of experience
- Speaks:English
- Online consultations: available
- Workplace: Turkey, Istanbul, Istanbul Okan University Hospital
- Performed over 1,900 kidney transplants and Turkey's first intestinal transplant; received the Prime Minister Medical Honor Award for surgical excellence.
Dr. Alp Gürkan is a surgeon with more than 33 years of experience in organ transplantation and general surgery. He has performed over 1,900 kidney transplants and more than 3,000 surgical procedures. This makes him one of Turkey’s most accomplished transplant surgeons.
Dr. Gürkan founded Turkey’s first non-university organ transplant clinic. He also performed the country’s first laparoscopic kidney transplant from a live donor. He is known for leading Turkey’s first intestinal transplant. Dr. Gürkan has received several major honors, including the Turkish Department of Health Excellence Award of Renal Transplant and the Prime Minister Medical Honor Award.
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Dr. Alp Gürkan established the first organ transplant clinic in Turkey outside of a university hospital and performed the country's first laparoscopic kidney procedure from a live donor. His pioneering work has significantly contributed to the advancement of organ transplantation in Turkey.
Awards
- Turkish Scientific Research Foundation grant: May 1994.
- Renal and Dialysis Patients Association Excellence Award: 1997.
- Turkish Organ Transplant Society Top Researcher Award: 2002.
- Turkish Organ Transplant Society Best Oral Presentation Award at the National Organ Transplant Congress: 2004 and 2008.
Membership
- Turkish medical doctors union
- Turkish national surgical society
- American College of Surgeons
- Aegeon surgical society
- Turkish organ transplant institution association
- Turkish Society of Nephrology
Education
- Graduated from the School of Medicine, Ege University, in 1981.
- Worked at the Experimental Surgery Center, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yale University for 18 months.
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