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1 areaSpecialties: General Surgery
General SurgeryCategory
ISOAccredited hospital · Istanbul
US$1,050 from8 priced items
32 staffListed at this hospital
Prof. Mert Erkan MD is an Associate Professor of General Surgery at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, a ISO-accredited center. Lists General Surgery. The hospital lists prices from US$1,050.
About
Assoc. Prof. Mert Erkan, M. D. was born in 1970 in Istanbul. After finishing high school in Dost College in 1988, he graduated from Istanbul Faculty of Medicine of the Istanbul University in 1995. He finished his residency at the Department of Surgery of the same university in 2001 and worked there as a consultant surgeon for two years. Between 2003-2007 he commenced postdoctoral research at the European Pancreas Center in molecular biology and achieved his second doctoral degree with summa cum laude (The influence of tumor modulated microenvironment on pancreatic cancer behavior) from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. In 2007 he moved to the department of surgery of the Technical University of Munich. He completed his sub-branch specialization in Digestive surgery in 2010 and became a consultant surgeon. He received his Associate Professor degree in Surgery in 2011. He became the head of Pancreatic Surgery of the Technical University of Munich in 2013. Since October 2014, he is working at the Department of Surgery of the Koç School of Medicine.
Education
- License Medical Faculty Istanbul University School of Medicine 1989 - 1995Residency Department of General Surgery Istanbul University School of Medicine 1995 - 2001Doctorate Molecular Biology Heidelberg Üniversitesi 2003 - 2007Subspeciality Digestive Surgery Technical University of Munich 2010 - ...Associate Professorship General Surgery Technical University of Munich 2011
Professional Experience
- Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery 1995 - 2002Heidelberg University, Department of Surgery 2003 - 2007Technical University of Munich, Department of Surgery 2007 - 2014Koç University Hospital 2014
Memberships
International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Associaton
International Association of Pancreatology (IAP)
European Pancreatic Club (EPC)
Deutscher Pankreasclub (DPC)
Turkish Association of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery
EDS – European Digestive Surgery
DGAV – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie
International Association of Pancreatology (IAP)
European Pancreatic Club (EPC)
Deutscher Pankreasclub (DPC)
Turkish Association of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery
EDS – European Digestive Surgery
DGAV – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie
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