Dr. Abdulkadir Bedirli completed his medical education at Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faculty in 1988. He became a General Surgeon in 1997 and was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of General Surgery at Gazi University Faculty of Medicine in 2005. He became a Professor in 2010.
In 2011, Dr. Bedirli completed the Robotic Surgery Certification Program in Strasbourg and became a console surgeon. He performed his first robotic surgery in the Department of General Surgery at Gazi University in the same year. Since then, he has successfully applied robotic surgery to over 1500 patients, mostly for obesity, stomach cancer, and colon-rectum cancers.
In 2012, Dr. Bedirli became a Surgical Oncology Specialist and participated in training programs on Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery in Paris-France in 2014 and in Lyon-France in 2016. In 2018, he completed the Gastric Cancer Master Class program at Severance Hospital in Seoul-South Korea, and in 2019, he participated in the Bariatric Redo Surgery training program in Bruges-Belgium.
Dr. Bedirli was awarded the F.A.C.S. (Fellow of the American College of Surgeons) title by the American College of Surgeons in 2018. He has published 61 international and 47 national papers, presented 87 papers at international conferences and 68 papers at national conferences, contributed to 7 book chapters, and served as an editor for one book. Dr. Bedirli has an H-index of 18, with 1064 citations to his 72 publications.
WORK EXPERIENCE :
1989-1990 Internship, Gulhane Military Medical Academy
1990-1992 Physician, 13th Mechanized Infantry Regiment, Seymen, Turkey 1996-1998 General Surgeon, Mobile Surgical Hospital, Hakkari, Turkey
1998-2001 General Surgeon, 600 Beds Mevki Military Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 1999 Brigade Surgeon, Stabilization Forces, NATO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2001-2015 Gülhane Military Medical Academy
2015- Özel Ankara Güven Hospital
Private Practice Experience
2009-2011 Özel Magnet Medical Center
2011- 2013 Özel Çağ Hospital
2013-2015 Özel İnternational Medicana Ankara Hospital
2015- Özel Ankara Güven Hospital
Private Practice Experience for Obesity and Metabolic Surgery
I have been involved in Obesity and Metabolic Surgery since 2011. Mainly in private practice. I have done over 2500 sleeve gastrectomy’s and more than 900 gastric bypass and metabolic surgery procedures with a total of over 3400 Obesity and Metabolic Surgery operations