He graduated from Akdeniz University Hospital in 1999. He completed his specialty training in the General Surgery Clinic of the same university in June 2005. He has become Assistant Assoc. Prof. in 2008 and has gained the title of Assoc. Professor in 2012 by being succesful in the exam held by the council of universities. After specialization he directed himself to innovations in minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopy). In 2005, he received advanced laparoscopic surgery training at Singapore National University Hospital. He received laparoscopic colonic surgery training in Hamburg / Germany in 2008 and laparoscopic gastric surgery training in Frankfurt / Germany in 2010. He performed biliary, hernia, bony, suprarenal and kidney transplant donor operations by using laparoscopic (SILS) method for the fi rst time through one incision (hole) which has enabled the spread of laparoscopic surgical procedures. He is interested in laparoscopic surgical treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, morbid obesity and metabolic diseases (Type II Diabetes Mellitus – Diabetes Mellitus). He is currently working as a lecturer in the General Surgery Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of Akdeniz University
