Education and Degrees:

• Associate Professor: November 2003, on Department of Neurosurgery  Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine, İzmir, TURKEY
• Assistant Professor: September 1997, on Department of Neurosurgery, Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine, İzmir, TURKEY
• Speciality: June 1996, on Department of Neurosurgery Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine, İzmir, TURKEY

WORK HISTORY (OCCUPATIONAL HISTORY)

• November1990-Present: Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine,  Department of Neurosurgery, TURKEY
• January - March 1993: Military Service in Istanbul, TURKEY
• July 1987-November1990:Worked as a general practitioner in Içel and Izmir Alsancak  General Hospitals, Departments of Emergency, TURKEY

CLINICAL OBSERVATION

• January 4 through March 26, 1999, Barrow Neurological Institute, Pheonix, Arizona, USA
• October 2-30, 2000, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Theoretical knowledge and operative experience in basic neurosurgery and spinal surgery.

Proficiency in thorocolumbar and cervical spinal instrumentation, percutan vertebroplasty, percutan nucleoplasty.    

• Turkish Neurosurgical Association
• Turkish Neurosurgical Association Spinal Surgery Group
• Turkish Spine Surgery Association
• Europen Spinal Society
• AANS/CNS Spine Section (adjunct member)