Education:
Karşıyaka Boys High School (1967 to 1973)
Ege University Faculty of Medicine (1973 to 1979)
Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (1980 to 1984)
Experience:
Kütahya Askeri Hastanesi (1984 to 1985)
Bingöl Devlet Hastanesi (1985 to 1986)
Alsancak Devlet Hastanesi (1986 to 1989)
Buca SSK Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi (1989 to 1991)
Würzburg University Hand Surgery, Germany
Indianapolis Hand Center, Indianapolis, USA
EMOT Hastanesi, İzmir (1991 to present)
Members of:
TOTBID (Turkish Orthopaedic Traumatology Association) - President (2013 to 2015)
TEÜCD (Turkish Society of Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery) - President (2010 to 2012)
Turkish Arthroscopy and Knee Surgery Association - Founding Member
FESSH (Federation of Hand-Surgery Societies of Europe of the Hand) - Congress President (2013)
ASSH (American Society for Surgery of the Hand) - International Member
Turkish Medical Association
Turkish Reconstructive Microsurgery Association
Publications:
Sonographic assessment of transverse carpal ligament after open surgical release of the carpal tunnel.
The effect of medial side repair in terrible triad injury of the elbow.
Risk factors for occupational hand injuries: relationship between agency and finger.
Finger replantations after ring avulsion amputations.
What kinds of hand injuries are more likely to result in amputation? An analysis of 6549 hand injuries.
Epidemiology of injuries treated at a hand and microsurgery hospital.
Long-term results of major upper extremity replantations.
Ultrasonographic evaluation of iatrogenic peripheral nerve injuries in the upper extremity.
Comparison between two mini incision techniques utilized in carpal tunnel release.
Elbow arthrolysis in severely stiff elbows.
The effect of dorsal cortical comminution on radiographic results of unstable distal radius fractures treated with closed reduction and K-wire fixation.
The importance of the finger extension test in the diagnosis of occult wrist ganglion.
Accidental use of the median nerve as an interposition material in first carpometacarpal joint arthroplasty.
Can we use nerve gliding exercises in women with carpal tunnel syndrome?
Reconstruction of skin and tendon defects from wound complications after Achilles tendon rupture.
Should the amputations of the great toe be replanted?
Correlation of magnetic resonance imaging and intraoperative punctate bleeding to assess the vascularity of scaphoid nonunion.
Reconstruction of soft tissue and bone defects in the lower extremity with free flaps.
Heterotopic replantation.
Eight years of experience in crush and avulsion-type finger amputation.
Rolling belt injuries in children.
Replantations and their functional results: the Turkish experience.