Overview
I have practiced and taught general surgery and transplant surgery throughout my career. I
established four kidney transplant centers, one of which was the first organ transplant clinic in
Turkey outside of a university hospital. That clinic became the highest volume cadaveric
organ donor center in the country. My role as lead surgeon at the centers involved managing
transplant teams of up to thirty people, starting kidney exchange programs, and establishing
and developing transplant procedures.
In the course of my career, I have personally performed more than 3000 kidney transplants
from cadaveric and live donors. I have also successfully completed numerous pancreas and
intestinal transplants. In addition to my transplant work, I have also performed over 3,000
surgical procedures, primarily gastrointestinal oncologic surgeries, including over 150
laparoscopic surgeries for hiatal hernia and morbid obesity.
