Dr. Onur Kesler, MD

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Core facts about the doctor and the hospital, as provided by the hospital.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree:
• 1997 – 2003Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of MedicineSpecialty Training:
• 2003General Surgery specialization at Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital

• 2003Started his General Surgery specialization at Sisli Etfal Training and Research HospitalDuring his specialty education which continued until 2009, he received training from Prof. Dr. Mehmet Mihmanlı. Also during the same period he had the chance to work with Prof. Dr. Halil Coskun who is one of the pioneers of the obesity surgery which newly started to enter Turkey.He completed his compulsory service at Kahramanmaras Yenisehir State Hospital. During his tenure, he established the Endoscopy unit and contributed to the endoscopy training of many colleagues.He was particularly interested in Laparoscopic Surgery throughout his career, both as a specialist training and as a General Surgery specialist.After working in advanced laparoscopic surgery areas such as reflux and tumor operations for a long time, he received training on obesity surgery at Istanbul Medical Faculty.He performed hundreds of revision(correction) surgeries as well as obesity surgeries such as Sleeve Gastrectomy, Roux En Y Gastric By-Pass, Mini Gastric By-Pass.For the last 2 years, he has been working on a new obesity surgery called “Combined Surgery” which is a modified obesity surgery. He is preparing to share this technique which has achieved very good results according to the fist data with his colleagues.

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