Cardiovascular Surgery
He was born in 1969 in Kilis. He graduated from Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine in 1992. After two years of compulsory service, he began his specialist training in 1995. He graduated from Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Hospital in 2000 as a Cardiovascular Surgery Specialist. The same year, he began working at Gaziantep University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery. In 2005, he served as an observing physician on valve repairs, aortic surgery, and the surgical treatment of heart rhythm disorders at Northwestern University in Chicago. He received the title of Associate Professor in 2007. During this time, he served as a participant and speaker in many meetings both in Turkey and abroad. He worked at Antakya Defne Hospital between 2008 and 2013, and at İskenderun Gelişim Hospital between 2013 and 2018. During this ten-year period, he successfully performed nearly four thousand cardiovascular surgeries in the Hatay and İskenderun regions. He returned to Gaziantep University in 2018 and received his Professorship in 2019. He retired from the university in September 2024 and began working at Medikal Point Gaziantep Hospital. His areas of interest include coronary bypass surgery, heart valve repair, aortic surgery, and small-incision cardiac surgery. He has chaired sessions and presented at numerous national and international meetings, supervised doctoral dissertations, and served as a project manager on scientific projects. He is a member of the Turkish Association of Cardiovascular Surgery and the Turkish Association of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.
