Best Ulcerative colitis doctors in Istanbul: TOP 11 doctors

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Tarik Akar
  • 4.5 Good 144 reviews
  • 20 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Hisar Intercontinental Hospital
  • Dr. Tarık Akar graduated from Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, Istanbul University in 2000 and was granted the title of “Internist” in 2004. He has published 19 international papers, 6 local papers, and 25 local and international congress presentations. His fields of medical interest include Achalasia, ESD, ERCP, Zenker’s Diverticulum, and Gastroparesis.

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Yilmaz Bilgic
  • 5 Excellent 2 reviews
  • 23 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Medipol Acibadem District Hospital
  • ACADEMIC CAREER SUMMARY

    Degree: Bachelor's
    Field: Medicine
    University: Atatürk University
    Year: 2001

    Degree: Master's
    Field: Medicine
    University: Atatürk University
    Year: 2001

    Specialization/Doctorate: Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology
    University: İnönü University
    Year: 2012

    Associate Professorship: Gastroenterology
    University: İnönü University
    Year: 2018

    Foreign Language: English, 67.5, 2007

    H-index (WoS/Google): 8/10

    Impact Factor: 8.1577

    Key Research Work:
    “Does apocynin increase liver regeneration in the partial hepatectomy model?” Yılmaz Bilgiç, Burhan Hakan Kanat, Onural ÖZHAN, Azibe YILDIZ, Zeynep AKSUNGUR, Mehmet Erman ERDEMLİ, Nigar VARDI, Yusuf TÜRKÖZ, Sami AKBULUT, Adem KÖSE, Hakan PARLAKPINAR. Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 (53), 1-12 Q3.

    Declared Project Title, Year:
    K.3.6. “Investigation of the Effects of Vinpocetine in Sepsis Created by Cecal Ligation and Puncture in Rats” (Principal Investigator), 2023

    International Experience:
    Advanced Endoscopy Training, Anam Hospital, South Korea (3 months, 2016)
    Advanced ERCP Course, Olympus Training Center, Hamburg (2017)

    ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

    • Institution: İnönü University Turgut Özal Medical Center
      City: Malatya
      Position: Assistant Chief Physician
      Period: 2021 - 2024
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Ozlem Ozer Chakir
  • 5 Excellent 28 reviews
  • 10 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital
  • Education

    MD; Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine (2001)

    Residencies

    Internal Medicine; Ministry of Health Ankara Diskapi Education and Research Hospital (2009)

    Pathology; Gazi University Faculty of Medicine (2004)

    Fellowships

    Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Medicine (2013)

    Experiences

    Demiroglu Bilim University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

    Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital (2019- currently)

    Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2017-2019)

    Bundang CHA Hospital, Seoul, Korea (2018)

    Konya Education and Research Hospital, Department of Gastroenterology  (2014-2017)

    Certificates

    Advanced Endoscopy Certificate, Bundang CHA Hospital, Seoul, Korea, 2018

    Bariatric Endoscopy Certificate, Bariatric Endoscopy Global course, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2020

    Awards

    2019 Rising Star, 10th Digestive Disease and Endoscopy Symposium

    Memberships

    Turkish Society of Internal Medicine

    Turkish Society of Gastroenterology

    ERCP Study Group at Turkish Society of Gastroenterology

    European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

    Women in Endoscopy, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

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Mehmet Altan Kaya
  • New
  • 34 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Grand Clinic
  • UNIVERSITY

    Ankara University Faculty of Medicine 

     

    UNIVERSITY WHERE HE TAKES EXPERTISE

    Göztepe Training and Research Hospital General Surgery

     

    CONGRESSES ATTENDED

    National Endoscopic Laparoscopic Surgery Congress

    World Congress on Controversies to Consensus in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension

    Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Congress

    Cerrahpaşa Surgery Meetings Turkish Bariatric Surgery Association

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Volkan Kinas
  • 4.5 Good 3 reviews
  • 9 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Büyük Anadolu Hospitals (BAH)
  • Specializations

     

    Cancer Surgery

    Pancreatic Surgery

    Bile Duct Surgery

    Bariatric Metabolic Surgery

    Oncological Surgery

    Breast Surgery

    Gastric cancer

    Colon cancer

    Thyroid Cancer

    Obesity Surgery

    Diabetes Surgeries

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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Muzaffer Al
  • 4.5 Good 3 reviews
  • 14 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Büyük Anadolu Hospitals (BAH)
  • Education

     

    Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Medicine (1991)

    KTÜ Faculty of Medicine Farabi Hospital (Specialization.1998)

    Istanbul University Çapa Faculty of Medicine (Laparoscopic Surgery Training, 2002)

    Istanbul University Çapa Faculty of Medicine (Laparoscopic Antireflux Surgery Training, 2006)

    Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine (General Surgery Clinic Advance Laparoscopic Surgery, Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery, Morbid Obesity and Oncological Cancer Surgery Training, 2010i)

     

     

     

     

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Tolga Sahin
  • 5 Excellent 28 reviews
  • 14 years of experience
  • accreditation:
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital
  • Education: 

     

    Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine 

     

    Specialization Training: 

     

    Baskent University Faculty of Medicine. Internal diseases 

    Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine, Gastroenterology Minor 

     

    Worked Institutions: 

    Tekirdag State Hospital (Compulsory Service) 

    Demiroğlu Bilim University Faculty of Medicine, Gastroenterology 

     

    Medical Interests: 

     

    Endoscopy-Colonoscopy 

    ERCP 

    Hepatology 

    Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 

    Liver Transplantation

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Nihat Okcu
  • New
  • 25 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Medipol University Pendik Hospital
  • Gastroenterology

     

    Pendik Medipol University Hospital

     

     

    Education

     

    1999 Karadeniz Technical University, Gastroenterology

     

    1997Atatürk University, Internal Diseases Professorship

     

    1992 Atatürk University, Internal Diseases Associated Professorship 

     

    1985 Atatürk University, Internal Diseases Specialist 

     

    1981 Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine

     

     

    Publications

    1- Nihat Okçu Gülçin Polat,Arif Yılmaz,Mehmet Koruk,The demographıc features of gastrıc cancers ın erzurum(Eurasian J Med 2000; 32: 63-65)

     

    2- Üst Gastrointestinal Kanamalı Olguların Bir Değerlendirilmesi. Klinik Bilimler-Doktor.2000, - E.akarsu,N.Okçu, ve Ark.Kuzeydoğu Anadolu’da 6:4:435-438

     

    3-N.Okçu, A.yılmaz. İ.kiki,M.D.onuk, C.gündoğdu, H.uzunismail. Tanısal Üst Gastrointestinal endoskopi Sonuçlarımız. Atatürk Üniversitesi Tıp Dergisi 1997,29 (2):486

     

    4-N. Okçu, M.gündoğdu, M.D. onuk, İ.kiki, l.cerrahoğlu, k.yılmaz, i. çapoğlu. Nonsteroid Anti İnflamatuar İlaç (NSAİİ) Kullanan Hastalarda oluşan Gastroduodenal Lezyonların Önlenmesinde Misoprostolün Yeri. Atatürk Üniversitesi Tıp Dergisi 1997,29 (2):453-455.

     

    5-N.Okçu, A. öz, m.d. onuk, e.akarsu, b. tekin, h.z. tonbul, h.kaya. Kronik Aktif Hepatit İle Dekopanse Karaciğer Parankim Yetmezliğinde Plazma Fibronektin Düzeyleri ve Karaciğerin Fonksiyon Durumu İle İlişkisi. Türk J. Gastroenterol 1995;27(4): 422-426.

     

    6-N.Okçu, tahir buran,m.d. onuk,a. yılmaz, e.akarsu, g. akçay. Erzurum ve Çevresinde Duodenum Ülserli Hastalarda Helicobacter Pylori Prevelansı. Türk J. Gastroenterol 1995;27(4): 447-450.

     

    7-N.Okçu, b.s. uyanık, e. akarsu, e. bakan, z. tonbul. Mide ve Kolorektal Kanserlerinde Karbonhidrat Antijenleri (CA-19-9, CA-125), Karsinoembriyonik Antijen (CEA) ve Alkalen Fosfatazın Önemi. Türk J. Gastroenterol 1995;6:467-471.

     

    8-N. Okçu, m.d. onuk, e. akarsu, h. doğan, c. gündoğdu. Bölgemizdeki Hepatoselüler Karsinomlu Hastalarda Major Risk Faktörleri. Gastroenteroloji 1994;5(2):154-157

     

    9-N.Okçu, m.d. onuk, e. akarsu, h. doğan, c.gündoğdu, tahir buran. Erzurum Bölgesinde Gastrik Karsinom Sıklığı, Endoskopik ce Histolojik Özellikler. Gastroenteroloji 1994;5(2):263-267.

     

    10-N. Okçu, m.d. onuk, tahir buran, e. akarsu, m.a. çiftçioğlu. Erzurum İli Çevresinde Nonspesifik Gastritli Olgularda Helicobacter Pylori Sıklığı. Gastroenteroloji 1994;5(2):211-213.

     

    11-N.Okçu, m.d. onuk, ö. ünal, e. akarsu, l. incesu, k. akgöz. Karın İçi Kitle Lezyonlarında Ultrason Rehberliğinde Yapılan İnce İğne Aspirasyon Biyopsisinin Tanı Değeri. Gastroenteroloji 1993;4(1):166-68.

     

    12-N.O.kçu, m.d. onuk, m. polat, a. yılmaz, m. gündoğdu, m. paç. Budd-Chiari Sendromu (2 Olgu). Türk J Gastroenterhepatol 1993; 4(1):77-80.

     

    13-N.Okçu, h. koçak, m.d. onuk, m. gündoğdu, e. bakan, a. yılmaz, a. başoğlu, a. ateş, f.a. paç. The Effect of Atrial Pressure Changes and Cardiac Nerves on Plasma Atrial Natriüretic Peptide (ANP) Levels. Vascular Surgery 1993; 27(2): 128-132

     

    15-N.Okçu, m.d. onuk, a.yılmaz, m. gündoğdu, t. buran. Omeprozol ve Ranitidinin Peptik Ülser İyileşmesine Etkileri. Doğa-Tr.J. of Medical Sciences 1992;16:657-658.

     

    16-N. Okçu, m.r. yiğitoğlu, b. adam, e. bakan. Konjestif Kalp Yetersizliği Olan Hastalarda Digıxin’in Plazma Atrial Natriüretik Peptik Düzeyine Etkisi. S.Ü. Tıp Fak. Dergisi 1991;7(2):243-247..

     

    17-N.Okçu, a. yılmaz. Üst Gastrointestinal Sistem Kanamalarında Histamin H2 -Reseptör Antagonistlerinin Etkisi. Endoskopi Dergisi 1991;2(4):17-23.

     

    18-N.Okçu, E. bakan, b. adam, a. yılmaz, m.r. yiğitoğlu. Kronik Hepatit ve Karaciğer Sirozlu Hastalarda Seks Hormanları ve Seks Hormon Bağlayıcı Globülin Seviyeleri (Editöre Mektup). Doğa-Tr. J. Of Medical Sciences 1991;15:1-2.

     

    19-N.Okcu Ömer Yılmaz.Helıcobacter pylorı and related gastroıntestınal system dıseases Turkiye Klinikleri JMed Sci. 2013;33(3):806-13

     

    20-Nihat Okçu , Ömer yılmaz, hakan dursun, gülçin polat. Dispeptik semptomlarla beslenme alışkanlıkları, endoskopik ve histolojik bulgular arasındaki ilişki (Eurasian J Med 2006; 38: 13-17)

     

    21-Mehmet Bilici,1Nihat Okcu,1Kerim Cayır,1Ibrahim Pirim,2Salim B. Tekin,1andCemal Gundogdu3 - Distribuion of HLA Tissue Groups in Patients with Gastric Cancer Eurasian J Med. 2010 Apr; 42(1): 9.11.

     

    22-Nihat Okcu,Abdulhalim Bak,Mehmet Sari,Mehmet Arslan,Sait Kapicioglu :The fibroblast proliferation,relationship of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and interferon-A2A Gastroenterology April 2000Volume 118,Issue 4, Part 2, PageA1404

     

    23-Kubra Kaynar,Sait Kapicioglu,Mehmet Sarı,Nihat Okcu,Abdulhalim Baki. The effect of fish oil on stress ulcer prophylaxis GastroenterologyVolume 118, Issue 4, Part 2, PageA1255

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Binnur Simsek
  • 4.5 Good 221 reviews
  • 37 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Liv Hospital Ulus
  • Medical Interests and Activities 

    Hepatic Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension 

    Hepatic Cancer 

    Viral Hepatitides (Chronic Hepatitis B, C and Delta Infections) 

    Alcoholic Chronic Liver Disease 

    Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease 

    Stomach and Duodenal Ulcer 

    Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (Ulcer and Varicose Vein Bleeding) 

    Functional Digestive System Disorders (Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Functional Intestinal Obstruction and Diarrhea...) 

    Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn’s Disease) 

    Malabsorption Syndromes (Celiac Disease and Alike) 

    Gastrointestinal Tract Malignancies

    Education and Experience 

    Liv Hospital, Ulus, Gastroenterohepatology Department (2013 ...) 

    Associate Professor of Medicine, Obligatory Service at Gastroenterology, Şanlıurfa Training and Research Hospital (2010-2012) 

    Subspecialty in Gastroenterohepatology, Department of Gastroenterohepatology, İstanbul Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul University (2004-2010) 

    Research Fellow, Physician, Department of Internal Diseases, 

    İstanbul Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul University (1992 - 1998)

    Memberships 

    Turkish Association For The Study of The Liver 

    Turkish Society of Gastroenterology 

    Inflammatory Bowel Disease Society 

    Internal Diseases Specialty Association

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Omer Necip Aytug
  • 4.5 Good 144 reviews
  • 44 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Hisar Intercontinental Hospital
  • This physician was born in 1956 and graduated from Hacettepe University School of Medicine in 1980. He was awarded the title of Internist in 1985 and completed his Gastroenterology fellowship at Marmara University in 1997. He has been an Associate Professor at Firat University since 1989 and a Professor at Abant İzzet Baysal University since 1998. He has worked and taught at private hospitals, including Camlica Medicana Hospital and Memorial Service Hospital, as well as Duzce University Faculty of Medicine.
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Prof Dr Ozgur Kemik
  • 4.4 Good 14 reviews
  • 27 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Hermes Clinics
  • Dr. Prof Dr Ozgur Kemik is a senior oncologist specializing in cancer management using minimally invasive techniques. He is proficient in operations such as Removal of liver cancer, Liver transplant, and Gastric bypass among others. His expertise includes advanced laparoscopic surgery, lower gastrointestinal tract cancers, hepatobiliary cancers, cytoreductive surgery, and kidney transplantation. He is a member of several professional associations and has held significant leadership positions in his career.
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