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He was born in Ankara in 1965. He completed his primary education at Halide Edip Adıvar Primary School, his secondary education at TED Ankara Private High School, his university education at the Faculty of Medicine of Ankara University, and his specialty training at the Neurosurgery Clinic of SSK Dışkapı Training and Research Hospital.
He worked as a neurosurgery specialist at Özel Ankara Güven Hospital between 2004 and 2006. He served as a specialist between 2006 and 2007 and as an assistant professor between 2007 and 2011 in the Department of Neurosurgery at Ufuk University. In 2007, he received the second prize of the Turkish Neurosurgery Association for best spinal surgery research. He worked once as an International Fellow and once as a Spetzler Neuroresearch Fellow on scholarship at the Barrow Neurological Institute in the USA, successfully completing both fellowships.
He was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and to full professor in 2017. He completed his MBA at the Faculty of Business Administration of Işık University in 2015. He has 45 articles published in peer-reviewed journals in Turkey and abroad, 18 book chapters in national books, and 2 books for which he served as editor. His H-index is 12. He is a member of the boards of the Turkish Neurosurgery Association, the Turkish Spine Association, the European Association of Neurological Surgeons, the North American Spine Society, and the Turkish Neurosurgery Academy, and is also a congress member of Beşiktaş Gymnastics Club. He served as a faculty member in the Department of Neurosurgery at Ufuk University for 12 years and additionally served as department chair for 4 years. He currently serves as Secretary General of the Turkish Neurosurgery Academy and Chair of the Basic Neurosurgery Courses of the Turkish Neurosurgery Association. He actively continues his role as an international trainer in the field of endoscopic surgery. His special interests are endoscopic spine surgery and neuro-oncological surgery. He is married and has one daughter.
