Foreign Languages Known (Score and Year): English (78.5, 2010 ÜDS)
Certifications Obtained:
- Robotic surgery certificate
- Kidney transplant certificate
- Liver transplant certificate
Profession:
General Surgery, Transplantation
Degree | Department/Program | University |
Licence | CERRAHPASA FACULTY OF MEDICINE | Istanbul University |
Master Degree | Department of GENERAL SURGERY, CERRAHPASA FACULTY OF MEDICINE | Istanbul University |
Expertise in Medicine | Department of, GENERAL SURGERY, CERRAHPASA FACULTY OF MEDICINE | Istanbul University |
Assoc.Prof degree | General Surgery | Gazi University |
Prof. degree | General Surgery | Gazi University |
Tasks:
Job Title | Position |
Res.Assist. | Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University |
Dr.Assist. | Department of General Surgery, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University |
Clinical Observer | Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, USA University of Minnesota Department of Surgery, Transplantation Clinic Clinical and surgical study on kidney, liver, pancreas transplantations. |
Research Fellow | Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, USA University of Minnesota Department of Surgery, Diabetes Institute Tolerance development in mouse and monkey models, Experimental research on chimerism, bone marrow transplantation, islet cell transplantations, skin transplantation. |
Clinical Fellow | Department of Transplantation, Department of General Surgery, Baskent University |
Instructor Member of | Transplantation Center, Gazi University |
Kidney transplant manager | Transplantation Center, Gazi University |
Assoc. Prof degree | General Surgery, Transplantation Center, Gazi University |
Liver transplant manager | Transplantation Center, Gazi University |
Prof. Degree | General Surgery, Gazi University |
Assignment | Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital Liver Transplantation |
Performed in Projects:
- Plasma homocysteine levels in living kidney donors before and after uninephrectomy (clinical research). National Institutes of Health Program Project Grant in Transplantation (NIH DK 13083-31), “Organ Transplantation in Animals and Man.” Project Designer .
- Protective effect of resveratrol, a red wine constituent polyphenol, on rats subjected to portal vein thrombosis (experimental study). Project Designer .
- Effect of nipruss ® as nitric oxide donor on colonic anastomosis healing in a diabetic rat model (experimental study). Master thesis.Project Designer .
- Resistance to the induction of mixed chimerism in spontaneously diabetic NOD mice depends on the CD40/CD154 pathway and donor MHC disparity (experimental study). NIH (R21AI055469) with JDRF Center for Islet Transplantation at the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Minnesota. Project Implementer .
- A substantial level of donor hematopoietic chimerism is required to protect donor-specific islet grafts in diabetic NOD mice (experimental study). Project Implementer.
- Inducing tolerance to MHC-matched allogeneic islet grafts in Diabetic NOD mice by simultaneous islet and bone marrow transplantation under nonirradiative and nonmyeloablative conditioning therapy. (experimental study). Project Implementer.
- Rapamycin and T cell costimulatory blockade as post-transplant treatment promote fully MHC-mismatched allogeneic bone marrow engraftment under irradiation-free conditioning therapy. (experimental study). Project Implementer. Supported by Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International and the American Diabetes Association.
- Blockade of the CD40/CD154 pathway enhances T-cell-depleted allogeneic bone marrow engraftment under nonmyeloablative and irradiation-free conditioning therapy (experimental study 2009 – 2012). Project Implementer.
- Multicenter study (clinical investigation) evaluating the safety and tolerability of the use of valganciclovir in the prevention of cytomegalovirus disease in solid organ transplant patients. Prot number: ML 21922.
- Multicenter follow-up study investigating the efficacy and safety of PSI group drugs in kidney transplant patients (clinical study 2008-2012). CRAD001ATR02. Responsible Researcher.
- Kidney Collaboravite Transplant Study. Germany. (clinical research. Responsible Researcher. 2016-)
- Insufficiency of organ donation in Turkey and its causes . Clinical Research Project. (project assistant responsible/supervisor).2016
- Development of statistical decision support systems for donor and donor matching in cadaveric kidney transplantation. 2018. TUBITAK 1003. Clinical Research Project. (project assistant responsible/supervisor)
Administrative Duties:
Kidney transplant manager | Transplantation Center, Gazi University |
Liver transplant manager | Transplantation Center, Gazi University |
Memberships to Scientific Organizations:
- EUROPIAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANTATION (ESOT)
- AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANTATION (AST)
- TURKISH ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION (TOND)
- NATIONAL SURGICAL ASSOCIATION
- TIGED