Best surgeons in Turkey: TOP 349 doctors

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

BRIEF SUMMARYOF WORK EXPERIENCE 

Including those I had transplanted during my fellowship at RUSH University in Chicago (n=86), I have performed a total of 705 liver transplants (%94 adult) both from living (%75) and cadaveric (%25) donors. And, additionally 340 kidney transplants which were mostly from living donors, too. Of these, 12 were combined liver and kidney transplantations either from cadaveric or living donors. Currently, I am the Director of Organ Transplant Program at GUVEN Hospital in Ankara. As of March 2018, here in GUVEN Hospital, we have performed 145 liver transplants (118 from living donors) with 1, 3 and 5 years patient survival of 91.2%, 86%and 83%, consecutively(ELTR data analysis). Since 1997, besides organ transplantation, I have also been operating on complicated hepato-pancreato-biliary patients

Dr. Davut Demir, a General Surgery specialist, is skilled in laparoscopic surgery, oncological surgery, trauma surgery, and morbid obesity surgery. He graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine and currently practices at Lokman Hekim Van Hospital. Dr. Demir has previously worked at Ağrı Patnos State Hospital and Istanbul Hospital, gaining extensive experience across various surgical disciplines. His expertise allows him to offer advanced and comprehensive surgical care, with a strong focus on minimally invasive techniques and complex procedures for optimal patient outcomes.

Dr. Metin Kızılkaya completed his primary and secondary education in Trabzon, and graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Dentistry. He obtained his medical doctorate from Başkent University in 2010 with a thesis related to the impacts of ibandronic acid on alveolar bone after tooth extraction. He served as a reserve officer in GATA Faculty of Dentistry and has been working at Dent Suadiye since 2016. His memberships include Turkish Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Society and International Team of Implantology (ITI).

Dr is a General Surgery Specialist with a Doctor of Medicine from Marmara University and Associate Professorship from Baskent University. He is a member of several professional societies and his speciality fields include Breast Surgery, Endocrine Surgery, and Laparoscopic Surgery.

A general surgeon with 17 years of experience who specializes in gastrointestinal disorders treatment

An experienced surgeon, who provides polyp surgeries, neck dissection, thyroid scintigraphy, and laparoscopic splenectomy.

An experienced urology specialist who now holds the position of the Head of the Urology Department at the Private Optimed Hospital.

Having a deep interest in laparoscopic surgery, Dr. Onur Kesler has performed hundreds of obesity surgeries such as sleeve gastrectomy, Roux En Y gastric by-pass, and mini-gastric bypass.

One of the founders of the Private Optimed Hospital. An experienced surgeon with almost 30 years of constant practice.