Best Ulcerative colitis doctors in Turkey: TOP 35 doctors

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Tarik Akar
  • 4.5 Good 146 reviews
  • 21 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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Prof Dr Ozgur Kemik
  • 4.4 Good 14 reviews
  • 28 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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Yusuf Akcan
  • 3.5 Good 3 reviews
  • 35 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Istanbul Oncology Hospital
  • Dr. Yusuf Akcan is a gastroenterologist and professor who has worked in various medical institutions since 1983. He currently works in the Gastroenterology department at Istanbul Oncological Hospital in Maltepe, Istanbul, performing endoscopic procedures such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, polypectomy, and more.
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Omer Necip Aytug
  • 4.5 Good 146 reviews
  • 45 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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Osman Krand
  • 3.5 Good 3 reviews
  • 39 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Istanbul Oncology Hospital
  • Dr. has attended Kabataş High School for Boys and Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine. He has had medical specialization education at Istanbul Haydarpasa Numune Hospital and has had a professional work story in various areas of interest including endoscopy applications, diseases of the large intestine, rectum and anal region, esophagus and stomach surgery, liver, pancreas and biliary tract surgery and surgery and hot chemotherapy for tumors that have spread to the abdominal.
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Erol Cakmak
  • 5 Excellent 1 review
  • 28 years of experience
  • Turkey, Sivas, Medicana Sivas Hospital
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Muharrem Coskun
  • 5 Excellent 3 reviews
  • 16 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Medicana Atasehir Hospital
  • This doctor has postgraduate education in Internal Medicine Residency Program and Gastroenterology Fellowship Program and has worked in hospitals such as T.C. Ministry of Health Balıkesir University Education and Research Hospital, Erzurum Bölge Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul Education and Research Hospital, Private Gaziosmanpaşa Hospital, Private Medicalpark Göztepe Hospital, and Medicana Hospital Kadıkoy, Department of Gastroenterology.
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Mehmet Onur Ozturk
  • New
  • 15 years of experience
  • Turkey, İzmir, Bewell Health Assistance
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Gürhan Şişman
  • 4.1 Good 7 reviews
  • 22 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Acibadem Altunizade Clinic
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Ibrahim Ertugrul
  • 4.2 Good 5 reviews
  • 29 years of experience
  • accreditation:
  • Turkey, Istanbul, ISU Gaziosmanpasa
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Ertugrul is a gastroenterologist specializing in ERCP, liver transplant, gastroscopy, endoscopic surgeries, liver biopsy, liver diseases, bile duct diseases, and reflux. He is a graduate of Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, and has a specialization in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He is a member of the Turkish Gastroenterology Association, Turkish Liver Research Association, and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Association.

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Ahmet Burak Toros
  • 5 Excellent 1 review
  • 23 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Medistate Hospital Istanbul
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Adil Baykan
  • 5 Excellent 1 review
  • 54 years of experience
  • Turkey, Istanbul, Medistate Hospital Istanbul
  • Prof. Dr. Adil Baykan is a leading general and oncological surgeon in Turkey with over 28 years of experience and a specialization in colorectal, endoscopic and laparoscopic surgeries, as well as thyroid and breast diseases. He has also published articles on colon cancer in national and international journals.
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Ezgi Sevic
  • New
  • 6 years of experience
  • Turkey, İzmir, Prof. Cemal Kara's Private Practice/EGE CERRAHI
  • NUTRITION AND DIET SPECIALIST 

    Ezgi Sevic graduated from Hacettepe University, Department of Nutrition and Dietetic as Honor Student. During her education, she conducted studies on “'The Effect of Hedonic Eating Behavior on Obesity', 'Total Parenteral Nutrition in Children' and 'The Relationship Between Insulin Resistance and Obesity'.” During her education, she took part in the field in studies on determining the nutritional status of the society. She worked as intern dietitian in Hospitals of Hacettepe University (Oncology Hospital, Adults Hospital, İhsan Doğramacı Child Hospital), Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital and many Community Health Centres. 
    She worked in Izmir Private Ekol Hospital. She successfully completed the 'Bariatric Nutrition Course' and the 'Innovations in Obesity Course'. She has participated in many training and seminar programs in her field. 

    Interests: Post- Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Nutrition, the Nutrition in Chronicle Diseases, Nutrition in Individuals with Diabetes, Nutrition in Cancer, Nutrition in Congenital Metabolic Diseases, Food Intolerances, Body Weight Control, Child and Adolescent Nutrition, Nutrition in Old Age, Nutrition in Pregnancy and Lactation.

    Dietit. Ezgi Sevic knows advanced English. 

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Tolga Sahin
  • 5 Excellent 29 reviews
  • 15 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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Abdulkerim Yilmaz
  • 5 Excellent 1 review
  • 34 years of experience
  • Turkey, Sivas, Medicana Sivas Hospital
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Mehmet Altan Kaya
  • New
  • 35 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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Yusuf Serdar Sakin
  • New
  • 23 years of experience
  • Turkey, Ankara, Private Koru Ankara Hospital
  • Prof. M.D. Yusuf Serdar Sakin was born in Nevşehir in 1978. After completing his primary and secondary education in Ankara, he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Gülhane Military Medical Academy in 2002.
    Following his graduation, he served in Gole/Ardahan for two years. He started his internal medicine training at the Department of Internal Medicine, Gülhane Faculty of Medicine.
    After completing his training, he worked as an internal medicine specialist in Ankara. A year later, he began additional training in the Department of Gastroenterology at Gülhane Faculty of Medicine and completed his training in 2014.
    After graduation, Yusuf Serdar Sakin continued to work in the same department. He also received advanced endoscopy and Motility training at AMC Center in the Netherlands in 2017.
    After obtaining the title of Associate Professor in 2017, he became a Professor in 2023.
    He currently provides medical services to patients at Koru Ankara Hospital. His areas of medical interest include:

    -Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
    -Push enteroscopy
    -Endoscopic mucosal resection
    -High-resolution manometry
    -pH/pH-impedance metry analysis
    -Advanced endoscopic procedures (stenting, dilation, etc.)
    -Gastrointestinal motility disorders
    -Gastroesophageal reflux disease
    -Inflammatory bowel diseases
    -Advanced endoscopic procedures and pancreatitis.

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

    Pendik Medipol University Hospital

    Education

    1999 Karadeniz Technical University, Gastroenterology

    1997 Atatürk 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 demographic features of gastric cancers in Erzurum(Eurasian J Med 2000; 32: 63-65)

    2- An Evaluation of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Cases. Clinical Sciences-Doctor.2000, - E.akarsu,N.Okçu,et Ark.Northeast Anatolia 6:4:435-438

    3-N.Okçu, A.yılmaz. İ.kiki,MDonuk, C.gündoğdu, H.uzunismail. Our Diagnostic Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Results. Atatürk University Medical Journal 1997,29 (2):486

    4-N. Okçu, M.gündoğdu, MD onuk, İ.kiki, l.cerrahoğlu, k.yılmaz, I. çapoğlu. The Role of Misoprostol in Preventing Gastroduodenal Lesions in Patients Using Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs). Atatürk University Medical Journal 1997,29 (2):453-455.

    5-N.Okçu, A. Öz, MD Onuk, E.Akarsu, B. Tekin, Hz Tonbul, H.Kaya. Plasma Fibronectin Levels in Chronic Active Hepatitis and Decoction of Liver Parenchymal Insufficiency and Their Relationship with Liver Functional Status. Turkish J. Gastroenterol 1995;27(4): 422-426.

    6-N.Okçu, Tahir Buran, MD Onuk, A. Yılmaz, E.Akarsu, G. Akçay. Prevalence of Helicobacter Pylori in Patients with Duodenal Ulcer in Erzurum and Surrounding Area. Turkish J. Gastroenterol 1995;27(4): 447-450.

    7-N.Okçu, bs awake, e. akarsu, e. bakan, z. tonbul. Importance of Carbohydrate Antigens (CA-19-9, CA-125), Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA) and Alkaline Phosphatase in Gastric and Colorectal Cancers. Turkish J. Gastroenterol 1995;6:467-471.

    8-N. Okçu, MD Onuk, E. Akarsu, H. Doğan, C. Gündoğdu. Major Risk Factors in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Our Region. Gastroenterology 1994;5(2):154-157

    9-N.Okçu, md. Onuk, e. akarsu, h. doğan, c.gündoğdu, tahir buran. Frequency of gastric carcinoma in Erzurum region, endoscopic and histological features. Gastroenterology 1994;5(2):263-267.

    10-N. Okçu, MD Onuk, Tahir Buran, E. Akarsu, MA Çiftçioğlu. Frequency of Helicobacter Pylori in Nonspecific Gastritis Cases in Erzurum Province. Gastroenterology 1994;5(2):211-213.

    11-N.Okçu, MD Onuk, Ö. Ünal, E. Akarsu, L. İncesu, K. Akgöz. Diagnostic Value of Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy in Intra-Abdominal Mass Lesions. Gastroenterology 1993;4(1):166-68.

    12-NOkçu, md. onuk, m. polat, a. yılmaz, m. gündoğdu, m. paç. Budd-Chiari Syndrome (2 Cases). Turkish J Gastroenterhepatol 1993; 4(1):77-80.

    13-N.Okçu, H. Koçak, MD 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 Natriuretic Peptide (ANP) Levels. Vascular Surgery 1993; 27(2): 128-132

    15-N.Okçu, MD Onuk, A.Yılmaz, M. Gündoğdu, T. Buran. Effects of Omeprozole and Ranitidine on Peptic Ulcer Healing. Doğa-Tr.J. of Medical Sciences 1992;16:657-658.

    16-N. Okçu, Mr. Yiğitoğlu, B. Adam, E. Bakan. The Effect of Digixin on Plasma Atrial Natriuretic Peptic Level in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure. S.Ü. Medical Faculty Journal 1991;7(2):243-247..

    17-N.Okçu, A. Yılmaz. The Effect of Histamine H2 -Receptor Antagonists in Upper Gastrointestinal System Bleeding. Endoscopy Journal 1991;2(4):17-23.

    18-N.Okçu, E. Bakan, B. Adam, A. Yılmaz, Mr. Yiğitoğlu. Sex Hormones and Sex Hormone Binding Globulin Levels in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis and Liver Cirrhosis (Letter to the Editor). Nature-Tr. J. Of Medical Sciences 1991;15:1-2.

    19-N.Okcu Ömer Yılmaz.Helıcobacter pylori and related gastrointestinal system diseases. Turkish Clinics JMed Sci. 2013;33(3):806-13

    20-Nihat Okçu, Ömer Yılmaz, Hakan Dursun, Gülçin Polat. The relationship between dyspeptic symptoms, nutritional habits, endoscopic and histological findings (Eurasian J Med 2006; 38: 13-17)

    21-Mehmet Bilici,1Nihat Okcu,1Kerim Cayir,1Ibrahim Pirim,2Salim B. Tekin,1andCemal Gundogdu3 - Distribution 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 Sari,Nihat Okcu,Abdulhalim Baki. The effect of fish oil on stress ulcer prophylaxis GastroenterologyVolume 118, Issue 4, Part 2, PageA1255

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Saygili Ozlem
  • 5 Excellent 1 review
  • 29 years of experience
  • Turkey, Sivas, Medicana Sivas Hospital
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