Prof. Ahmet Tunc Ozdemir
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I recently underwent an important operation; I hope I will be healthy.
I wish him and his team success.
God grant him luck; we are grateful.
Professor Ahmet Tunc Ozdemir is a Turkish urologist-oncologist and one of the pioneers of robotic urological surgery in Turkey. In March 2005, he was part of the team that launched the country’s first robotic urological surgery program at the Florence Çağlayan Clinic, and in June 2008 he performed Turkey’s first robotic sacrocolpopexy. In 2005, he completed training in robotic surgery in Paris and Belgium; in 2008 — at North Carolina Wake Forest University (USA); and from 2009 to 2011 he completed a two-year program at the European Institute of Oncology (Milan, Italy) — this period explains his confirmed knowledge of Italian. He received the title of associate professor in 2013 and the title of full professor in 2018. He worked at Yeditepe University (2013–2018) and is currently part of the Group Florence Nightingale. His clinical focus is robotic radical prostatectomy, bladder removal with subsequent reconstruction, extended lymph node dissection, and kidney surgery. He is a laureate of international awards for scientific reports and the best video presentation at European urology congresses. For the patient, this means the opportunity to receive robotic onco-urological surgery from a doctor who personally stood at the origins of this technique in Turkey.
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About Doctor Ahmet Tunc Ozdemir
Urology. Narrow specializations: onco-urology (prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer), robotic urological surgery, endourology, laparoscopic urology. Also — urinary incontinence, sacrocolpopexy.
- 1998 — Medical degree, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine (Ankara).
- 2004 — Certificate of specialist in urology, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, 1st Urology Clinic.
- 2005 — Internship in robotic surgery in Paris and Belgium.
- 2008 — Fellowship in endourology and advanced robotic surgery, North Carolina Wake Forest University (USA).
- 2009–2011 — Training at the European Institute of Oncology (Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy) in robotic urology and onco-urology.
- 2013 — Academic title of associate professor.
- 2018 — Academic title of full professor.
- 2007–2009 — Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital.
- 2011–2013 — Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital again.
- 2013–2018 — Yeditepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Urology, as associate professor.
- Since 2018 — Professor at the Group Florence Nightingale in Istanbul.
- Pioneering operations: March 2005 — Turkey’s first robotic urological surgery program (Florence Çağlayan); June 2008 — Turkey’s first robotic sacrocolpopexy.
- Publications in the journals Journal of Endourology, Andrologia, Advances in Urology, and Urologia Internationalis.
- Main topics: robotic nerve-sparing radical cystoprostatectomy, complications during open nephrectomy, papaverine-induced priapism.
- Scientific awards: Karl Storz Second Prize (SEEM 2010); award for the best video presentation (ERUS 2010); award for the best article in the Journal of Clinical and Analytical Medicine (2013).
Group Florence Nightingale is one of Turkey’s oldest private medical groups and is affiliated with Demiroğlu Bilim University. The group performed the country’s first private robotic cardiac surgery and opened Turkey’s first private oncology and radiotherapy center. Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital holds international JCI accreditation. The group’s clinics run a robotic surgery program (da Vinci system), as well as departments of oncology, interventional radiology, and radiotherapy. For a patient with prostate, kidney, or bladder cancer, this means the opportunity to receive robotic radical prostatectomy or kidney/bladder removal from a professor who personally stood at the origins of the country’s robotic surgery program, in a clinic with a multidisciplinary oncology structure.
