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He is Ear – Nose – Throat and Head and Neck Surgery Specialist. In 1974 he graduated from Ankara Ataturk High School. After he finished preparatory class in English for 1 year in ODTU, he won Hacettepe University Eskisehir Medical Faculty.

In 1980 he finished Hacettepe University Eskisehir Medial Faculty. In 1984 he got his career education in the department of ENT in Hacettepe University Medical Center. He served his military service in Ankara Mevki Hastanesi as an ENT Specialist, in 1986 he began his conscription in state of Ordu Government Hospital.

He worked in Izmir Atatürk Education and Research Hospital as chief intern in 1989, as a chef assistant in 1991, as an instructor in 1994 and worked there till June 2008. On June 20088, he worked in Namik Kemal University Medical Faculty in head of the department of ENT, Head of Department of Surgical Medical and worked as a Medical Faculty member of University Senate finally, he resigned on August in 2010.

Prof. graduated from Izmir Eşrefpaşa High School in 1996. Dr. Serdar KALEMCİ graduated from Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine in 2003. In 2009, he specialized in Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases. He completed his compulsory service at Şanlıurfa Suruç State Hospital in 2010.

In 2015, he received the title of associate professor while working at Muğla University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases. Kalemci has clinical and experimental studies in the field of Chest Diseases.

He has 50 international publications. 4 of these were published in SCI and 36 in SCI EXPANDED journals. He has 20 national publications. He has made oral and written presentations at many national and international congresses.

Dr. Erkancakir is a specialist in pediatric chest diseases. He has experience with acute and chronic respiratory problems, respiratory tract infections, and bronchoscopic procedures. His areas of focus include asthma, sleep-related breathing disorders, cystic fibrosis, and tuberculosis.

He completed his medical degree at Istanbul University. He continued his specialty training at Göztepe Training and Research Hospital and Marmara University. Dr. Erkancakir has worked at leading institutions, such as Bezmialem Vakıf University and Süreyyapaşa Chest Diseases Training and Research Hospital.

He is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Turkish Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society. Dr. Erkancakir has received more than 20 national and international awards for his research and presentations, especially in pediatric pulmonology and cystic fibrosis.

Areas of Interests

• General Gastrointestinal Diseases
• Endoscopic procedures (gastroscopy, colonoscopy, enteroscopy, capsule endoscopy)
• Interventional endoscopy
• ERCP
• Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS)
• Cholangioscopy
• Diseases of the biliary system and pancreas

Education:
 

• 1990 -1996 Ankara University Faculty of Medicine
• 1997 - 2001 Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital Internal Medicine Residency
• 2001 - 2003 Turkey High Specialization Training and Research Hospital, Gastroenterology Subspecialization
• 2010 - 2010 State University of New York, USA, Department of Gastroenterology, EUS training program
   

Experience:
 

• June 2024 LIV Hospital Ulus Hospital
• 2018 - 2024 Florence Nightingale Hospitals, Gastroenterology Clinic
• 2013 - 2018 Memorial Ataşehir Hospital, Gastroenterology Clinic
• 2008 - 2013 Gaziantep University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Assoc. Prof. Dr.
• 2008 - 2008 Medicalpark Gaziantep Hospital Gastroenterology Clinic
• 2004 - 2008 Gaziantep State Hospital Gastroenterology Clinic, Endoscopy Unit Founding Physician

Publications

• Arhan M, Koklu S, Koksal AS, Yolcu OF, Koruk S, Koruk I, Kayacetin E. Alverine citrate induced acute hepatitis. World J Gastroenterol 2004; 10(15): 2303-4  ISSN: 1007-9327
• Parlak E, Cicek B, Koruk I, Disibeyaz S, Sahin B. Successful prevention of stent migration caused by placement of a second stent. Endoscopy. 2005; 37(4): 404. ISSN: 0013-726X
• Koruk I, Ozturk ZA, Köklü S, Koruk S, Ozdede S. Port-site metastasis after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Acta Gastroenterol Belg. 2008; 71(2): 283-4      ISSN:0001-5644
• Koruk I, Parlak E, Secilmis S, Akdogan M, Koklu S.  Endoscopic sphincteroplasty with large balloon dilatation for extraction of difficult common bile duct stones. Dig Dis Sci. 2008 Jun;53(6):1737-8. ISSN: 0163-2116
• Ozkaya M, Yuzbasioglu MF, Koruk I, Cakal E, Sahin M, Cakal B. Preoperative detection of insulinomas: two case reports. Cases J. 2008 Nov 29; 1(1): 362  ISSN: 1757-1626
• Yılmaz Ö, Koruk İ, Çayır K, Koruk M, Yılmaz A. Usefullness of serum insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) for colorectal cancer diagnosis. Int J Hematol Oncol 2009; 19(1): 23-27  ISSN: 1306-133X
• Savaş C, Koruk İ, Koruk M, Kadayıfçı A, Sarı İ. Association of prion protein with the stage of liver fibrosis in chronic viral hepatitis. Trakya Univ Tip Fak Derg. 2010; 27(4): 373-7. DOI: 10.5174/tutfd.2009.02284.1 ISSN: 1301-3149
• Buyukberber M, Koruk I, Cıkman O, Koruk M, Kucukoglu ME, Sakman A, Demir O, Sahinoz S. Serum cystatin C measurement in differential diagnosis of intra and extrahepatic cholestatic diseases. Ann Hepatol 2010; 9(1): 58-62  ISSN: 1665-2681
• Gulsen MT, Koruk I, Dogan M, Beyazit Y. Diagnostic accuracy of cascade stomach by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in patients with obscure symptoms: A multi-center prospective trial. Clin Res Hepatol Gastroenterol. 2011; 35: 489-93. DOI: 10.1016/j.clinre.2011.03.004         ISSN: 2210-7401
• Koruk I, Aydın U, Koruk S, Aydınlı M. A newly defined biliary anatomic variation. Turk J Gastroenterol 2011; April 22(2): 232-3  DOI:10.4318/ tjg.2011.0204  ISSN: 1300-4948
• Koruk İ, Özdemir H, Aydınlı M, Tarakçıoğlu M, Koruk M. The relation between serum Cytokeratin 18 and acute pancreatitis: Can it be a serological predictive marker?. Turk J Gastroenterol. 2011. DOI:10.4318/tjg.2011.0256 ISSN: 1300-4948
• Aydinli M, Koruk I, Koruk S, Aydin U, Kadayifci A. Intraoperative cholangioscopy with an ultrathin endoscope for hemobilia. Endoscopy 2011;43 Suppl 2 UCTN:E410. doi: 10.1055/s-0030-1256897. Epub 2012 Jan 24
• Aydinli M, Koruk I, Dag MS, Savas MC, Kadayifci A. Ultrathin endoscopy for gastrointestinal strictures. Digestive Endoscopy 2012 May;24(3):150-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2011.01206.x. Epub 2011 Oct 27                 ISSN: 0915-5635
• Yılmaz Ö, Koruk İ, Onbaş O, Ozgokce M. Portal venous gas resulting from enteritis in a case with portal hypertension: Case report. Türkiye Klinikleri Tıp Bilimleri Dergisi. 2012; 32 (4): 1195-8 ISSN: 1300-0292
• Demiryürek S, Koruk I, Bozdag Z, Ozkara E, Kaplan DS, Oztuzcu S, Cetinkaya A, Alasehirli B, Demiryürek AT. Investigation of the esophageal Rho-kinase expression in patients with Barrett's esophagus. Ultrastruct Pathol. 2013 Aug;37(4):284-9. doi: 10.3109/01913123.2013.797064        ISSN: 0191-3123
• Dag MS, Ozturk ZA, Koruk I, Kısacık B, Gerenli O, Aydınlı M, Kadayıfcı A. Intestinal Behcet's disease with severe pulmonary arterial involvement mimicking ulcerative colitis. Asian Biomedicine. 2013; 7(5): 715-8      ISSN: 1905-7415
• Dağ MS, Aydınlı M, Oztürk ZA, Türkbeyler IH, Koruk I, Savaş MC, Koruk M, Kadayıfçı A. Drug- and herb-induced liver injury: a case series from a single center. Turk J Gastroenterol. 2014 Feb;25(1):41-5. doi: 10.5152/tjg.2014.4486ISSN: 1300-4948
• Kadayifci A, Atar M, Parlar S, Balkan A, Koruk I, Koruk M. Transnasal endoscopy is preferred by transoral endoscopy experienced patients. J Gastrointestin Liver Dis. 2014 Mar;23(1):27-31     ISSN: 1841-8724
• Alasehirli B, Oğuz E, Oksuzler E, Koruk I, Oztuzcu S, Ozkara E, Karakok M, Erbagcı AB, Demiryurek AT. Investigation of intercellular adhesion molecules (ICAMs) gene expressions in patients with Barrett's esophagus. Tumour Biol. 2014 May;35(5):4907-12. doi: 10.1007/s13277-014-1644-3      ISSN: 1010-4283
• Dag M, Özturk Z, Aydınlı M, Koruk I, Kadayfçı A. Postpartum hepatotoxicity due to herbal medicine Teucrium polium. Ann Saudi Med. 2014 Nov-Dec;34(6):541-3. doi: 10.5144/0256-4947.2014.541        ISSN: 0256-4947
• Tahtacı M, İbiş M, Koruk İ, Parlak E. Endoscopic removal of fractured basket traction wire. Turk J Gastroenterol. 2014 Dec;25 Suppl 1:324-5. doi: 10.5152/tjg.2014.6582            ISSN: 1300-4948
• Dağ MS, Koruk İ, Aydınlı M, Çam H, Öztürk ZA, Kadayıfçı A. An unusual cause of esophageal ulcer; sertraline hydrochloride. Turk J Gastroenterol. 2014 Dec;25 Suppl 1:250-1. doi: 10.5152/tjg.2014.4646  ISSN: 1300-4948
• Balkan A, Yılmaz N, Balkan Y, Koruk İ, Örkmez M, Aydınlı M, Koruk M. Relationship between liver injury and serum cytokeratin 18 levels in asymptomatic hepatitis B virus carriers and in patients with chronic hepatitis B infection. Arab Journal of Gastroenterology. 2017; 18: 98–103                   ISSN: 1687-1979
• Koruk İ. How to manage difficult cannulation in ERCP. Gastroenterology and Hepatology: Open Access. 2017, 6(3): 00194. DOI: 10.15406/ghoa.2017.06.00194 ISSN: 2373-6372
• Valori R, Cortas G, de Lange T, Balfaqih OS, de Pater M, Eisendrath P, Falt P, Koruk I, et al.  Performance measures for endoscopy services: A European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Quality Improvement Initiative.  Endoscopy 2018; 50: 1186–1204   ISSN 0013-726X
• Koruk S, Koruk I, Mizrak A. A, Bilgi M, Gul R, Bozgeyik S. Dexmedetomidine or midazolam in combination with propofol for sedation in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: a randomized double blind prospective study. Videosurgery Miniinv. 2020; 15(3): 526-32 doi.org/10.5114/wiitm.2020.95066

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.

Prof. Dr. Osman İLHAN graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 1978. After completing his internal medicine residency at the same faculty in 1982, he served as a senior resident at the GATA Hematology Clinic during his military service. After completing his mandatory service at SSK Ulus Hospital, he returned to Ankara University Faculty of Medicine for a subspecialty. In 1990, he became an associate professor of hematology. He worked in Genoa, Italy to increase his knowledge and experience in leukemia. He was part of the team that performed the first bone marrow stem cell transplant in Turkey. In 1996, he went to the MD Anderson Cancer Center in the USA to work on "Stem Cell Mobilization, Cryopreservation, and Transplantation." In 1996, he became a professor of hematology. In 1999, he was elected as the regional president of ESFH (European Society for Hemapheresis). Dr. İlhan, who was the founder and president of the Hemapheresis Society in 2000, joined the World Apheresis Association (WAA) in 2001. He became the President of the Turkish Hematology Association in October 2001. Dr. İlhan, who is an active member of the European Hematology Association (EHA), was a member of the accreditation committee (ECAH) for education. He played a role in the accreditation of Turkish hematologists in CME credits by participating in the accreditation of congresses and courses held in Turkey as a Provider Status. He served as the founding president of the Cellular Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Association established in 2008. He became the founding president of the Geriatric Hematology Association in 2011. He is the Honorary President of the World Apheresis Congress (WAA) held in 2012. Dr. İlhan, who previously served on drug licensing and ethics committees at the Ministry of Health, has also served as the Chairman of the Photopheresis-Apheresis Commission and the Scientific Committee for Bone Marrow Transplantation, as well as the Chairman of the National Organ Tissue Cell Coordination Board, the Scientific Board of Cord Blood, and the Stem Cell Research Board. He is the founding president of the STEM CELL FOUNDATION and has played an important role in the establishment of TURKOK (Turkish Stem Cell Donor Bank). Dr. İlhan has over 300 publications in journals registered in PubMed and more than 5000 citations. He holds the Platinum CME certificate from the European Hematology Association. He owns four brands/patents named “Kökten Çözüm (Deep Solution), Telehematoloji (Telehematology), Hemaferez (Hemapheresis), Kanser Kök Hücresi (Cancer Stem Cell)”. He is currently the President of the Ankara Medical Association. Prof. Dr. Osman İlhan, who served at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine for 50 years, began working at Özel Koru Ankara Hospital as of January 1, 2023.

His medical interests include:

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (Autologous, Allogeneic)

Acute Leukemia

Chronic Leukemia Treatments

Hodgkin Lymphoma

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatments

Multiple Myeloma Treatments, MDS

Aplastic Anemia

ITP

TTP Treatments

Hypercoagulability

Hereditary Thrombophilia Treatments

Therapeutic Apheresis

Photopheresis

Geriatric Hematology Diseases.

Sema Yılmaz was born on July 30, 1965. She received her undergraduate degree from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty and completed her medical residency training at the Department of Pediatrics at Zeynep Kamil Women's and Children's Health and Diseases Hospital. She also completed her medical subspecialty training in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Cukurova University. Her medical residency thesis was titled "The Relationship Between Morning First Urine Density and Nocturnal Enuresis in Children Aged 3-6 Years", and her medical subspecialty thesis was titled "Comparison of Sphingosine 1-phosphate Receptor 4 Gene Expression in Healthy Children and Neuroblastoma Patients". She started her medical career as a general practitioner. After working as a general practitioner for 4 years, she worked as a doctor researcher at Zeynep Kamil Women's and Children's Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital for 5 years. She then served as a specialist doctor, assistant professor, and associate professor at various institutions. She worked at Houston MD Anderson, North Carolina-UNC, Boston-Harvard University in the USA. Additionally, she conducted research on cell therapies. She received the title of professor in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Usak Medical Faculty. She is a member of the Turkish Pediatric Oncology Group, European Association for Cancer Research (EACR), Turkish Medical Association, Turkish National Pediatrics Association, Turkish Pediatrics Association, Pediatrics Specialty Academy Association (PUADER), Turkish Immunology Association, Turkish Hematology Association, and Molecular Oncology Association (MOKAD). She currently serves her patients at Koru Hospital. Her medical interests include:

Cell therapies in childhood cancers

Cancer immunology

Investigation of genetic pathways responsible for cancer and metastasis

Pulmonary microbiota

BAL transplantation

Medical Interests and Activities 

• Gastrointestinal diseases 

• Oncologic laparoscopic surgery 

• Anorectal area diseases 

• Urgent surgical cases (acute cholecystitis, divertikülit, ileus, pankreatit, appendicitis) 

• Colon and rectum cancer 

• Treatment of oncologic surgical cases with further laparoscopic and robotic surgery. • Laparoskopik hernia surgery 

• Esophagus and stomach cancer 

• Selim anorectal diseases (hemorrhoidal disease, anal fissure), perianal fistula, pilonoidal sinus (hairless- non-surgical treatment)

Education and Experience 

• İstanbul University Medical Faculty 1988 • University of Colorado Health Science Center – Intern Surgeon 

• Isparta, Dedeçam Şehit Ramazan Karaca Health Center (1995-1996) • İstanbul Surgery Hospital – American Hospital (2000-2001) 

• Chief assistant Istanbul Medical Faculty, Department of General Surgery (2001-2008) • World Congress on Peritonel Surface Malignancies (HIPEC course) Berlin, Germany (2012) 

• USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2006-2007) 

• Assoc. Prof. M.D. , İstanbul Medical Faculty General Surgery (2008-2014) 

• Da Vinci Robotic Intensive Course at IRCAD, Strasbourg, France (2011) 

• Stony Brook Medicine Cadaver Training Event in Colon and Rectal Surgery, New York, USA (2016) (Instructor) 

• Fellow of the European Board of Surgery- Emergency Surgery (FEBS EmSurg) Honorary Diploma (2017) 

• Prof. M.D. , İstanbul Medical Faculty General Surgery (2014 -2017) 

• İstanbul University Medical Faculty – General Surgery Master of Science 1996 

• University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of General Surgery, Los Angeles, USA – February 2006 – February 2007

Scientific Publications • Endoscopic Laparoscopic & Minimal Invasive Surgery Journal Editorial Board / National Scientific Committee • UTACD Assist. Editor

Education

• Doctor of Medicine: Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, 1994
• Internal Medicine Residency: Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine, 2004
• Internal Medicine Residency: Kafkas University Faculty of Medicine, 2007
• Medical Oncology Subspecialty Residency: Selçuk University Faculty of Medicine, 2010
• Medical Oncology Subspecialty Training: Istanbul University Oncology Institute, 2013

Experience

• Dailiye Assistant: Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine, 2005
• Asst. Assoc. Prof. Dr.: Kafkas University, 2006-2007
• Assistant Prof.: Selcuk University - Medical Oncology, 2007-2010
• Assistant Prof.: Istanbul University Oncology Institute - Medical Oncology, 2012-2013
• Uzm. Dr.: Istanbul University Oncology Institute - Medical Oncology, 2013-2017
• Assoc. Prof. Dr.: Istanbul University Oncology Institute - Medical Oncology, 2017-2023
• Prof. Dr.: Istanbul University Oncology Institute - Medical Oncology, 2023-present

Scientific Memberships

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• Turkish Society of Medical Oncology
• European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO)
• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
• Turkish Internal Medicine Specialty Society

Awards

• 2018: "Best Researcher of the Year" award, Istanbul University Oncology Institute
• 2016: TUBITAK Incentive Award in the field of "Cancer Research"