Prof. Öztekin OTO, MD., FESC., FACC.
Şair Eşref Cad. 1402 sk. No.2/2 Özbaş Apt. Alsancak - İZMİR / TURKEY
Date of Birth: 14 / 02 / 1957
- Professor and Founder Chairman, Dokuz Eylul University, School of Medicine, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (1995)
- 1998 Performing the first heart and lung transplantation in Turkey (also the first
procedure in childhood)
- 1996 Beginning of the minimally invasive cardiac surgery in the same institute
- 1993 Starting the routine ultrafiltration in neonatal and congenital open heart surgery
- 1992 Starting of the Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for the first time in Turkey
- 1990 Beginning of the open heart surgery and coronary artery surgery in the same institute.
- 1989 Establishing the department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in Dokuz Eylul University, School of Medicine
- Associated Professor, Dokuz Eylul University, School of Medicine, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (1989)
Training After the Residency Period
- 1989
Working as a 'Senior Registrar'for 6 months in the Edinburgh
Royal Infirmary Hospital, Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- 1987-89 Compulsory service: Experiencing about the coronary artery surgery in the Clinic of Cardiovascular Surgery as a Prime Asistant in the Yüksek Ihtisas Hospital of Turkey (Ankara)
- 1986 Military service : 6 months in the military hospital of Kyrenia (Girne - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) and 6 months in Gülhane Military Academy of Medicine as a senior cardiovascular surgeon.
- Residency in Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in Hacettepe University (1981-1986)
- 1984 Experiencing for 3 months in the coronary artery surgery in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Hospital, Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Medical Education in Hacettepe University, School of Medicine; September 1974-June 1980
- 1980 Graduation from the medical school
- 1979 Working as a 'House Surgeon' for 4 months in Dept. of Cardiac Surgery of St Thomas
Hospital (London) accompanying Mr. B.T. Williams and Mr. Brainbridge
- 1978 Elective Training Course for 4 months in Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery of St George's Medical School (London) accompanying Mr John Parker
- 1975 Course for 'Advanced English' for 3 months in Oxford Academy of English
- 1974 'Highly Degreed Succeess' in the examination of exemption for the English Preparatory Education of 1 year
Education Before the Medical School Period
- 1971-1974 Cumhuriyet Senior High School, Ankara (graduation as a first grade)
- 1968-1971 Bahcelievler Junior High School, Ankara (graduation as a first grade)
- 1963-1968 Bahcelievler Primary School, Ankara.
Scholarships, Rewards and Certificates
- 1970 Encouragement Prize in the mathematics competition of TUBITAK (Turkish Association of Scientific and Technical Research)
- 1973 Wining of the AFS Scholarship for education in United States of America for 1 year
- 1973 Wining of the Uncovered Scholarship of TUBITAK
- 1974 Graduation as a first grade from Ankara Cumhuriyet Seinor High School
- 1974 Continuation of Uncovered Scholarship of TUBITAK for the period of medical education because of succeeding in entrance to the 5 percentile in the university election examination
- 1980 Certificate of German Language from Deutches Goethe Institute
- 1981 By the Scholarship of NATO, Course of Atherosclerosis for 15 days in Naples (Italy)
- There are 15 published or accepted papers in the international journals, 58 published papers in the national journals. Also the number of the studies presented in the international congresses is 38, and 48 in the national congresses. There are chapters which had taken place in 7 ddifferent (different) printed books.
Foreign Languages:
English, German
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS :
- Turkish Society of Cardiology (1987)
- Society of Vascular Surgery (1992)
- European Society for Vascular Surgery (1992)
- European Association of Transplantation (1992)
- National Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (1993)
- New York Academy of Science (1983)
- Member of the Cardiovascular Surgery Working Group of European Society of Cardiology (1993)
- Co-Chairman of the Nucleus of Cardiovascular Surgery Working Group in European Society of Cardiology (1998)
- Founder and present president of Izmir Division of the National Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (1995)
- Member of the Executive Committe of National Society of Pediatric Cardiology (1996)
- Member of the Board of Mediterranean Association of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (1987)
- Associated President of the Executive Committe of National Society Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Editor of the nationally published journal of the same society (1997)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Bursa Medical Sciences Journal (publication of the Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Hospital)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Izmir Hospital of Pulmonary Care Journal
Symposiums Actively Taken Part in Organisation
- IVth Congress of the Mediterranean Association of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (September 1990)
- Responsibility for the Turkish and Middle-East Section of the Mediterranean Association of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery for the XIIth and XIIIth congresses (1998 and 1999)
- VIIIth National Congress of Vascular Surgery 20-23 April 1996, Izmir
- Workshop about "Advances in Vascular Surgery and Bioprosthesis Implantation" organised with the commitment of Hancock-Jaffe Laboratories 2 February 1998, Dokuz Eylul Medical School, Izmir
- Symposium of I, II and IIIth Interactive Postgraduate Education about the Advancements in Diagnosis and Therapy of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Impairments in Children and Adults (1996, 97 and 98), Izmir.
- Monthly Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Cardiology Meetings organised for Izmir and its environment (from November to June each year); also presentations from our department and presidencies in the meetings
Hobbies:
Tennis, classical music, skiing, painting
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