Mehmet Caglar Berk

Professor and Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Anadolu Medical Center in affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine. Opinion leader in the field of neurosurgery in Turkey and USA.

Specialties include:

• Treatment of brain and spine tumors
• Neurosurgery using neuronavigation
• Minimally invasive brain and spine surgery
• Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery
• Surgical treatment of movement disorders and epilepsy

• Received his medical education at the Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, between 1983 and 1989.

Neurosurgical training was performed during the following periods:

• Resident in the Department of Neurological Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA, from July 2006 to June 2012.
• Clinical Fellow in Pediatric Neurosurgery at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, July 2005 to June 2006.
• Clinical Fellow in Pediatric Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Ottawa, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from July 2004 to October 2004.
• Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA, from August 2003 to April 2004.
• Clinical Fellow in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery, Dalhousie University, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from July 2002 to June 2003.
• Clinical Fellow in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at the Movement Disorders Surgical Center, Department of Neurosurgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 2000 to June 2002.
• Resident in the Department of Neurosurgery, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, from July 1992 to July 1998.

• ABNS – American Board of Neurological Surgery (2019)
• ABNS #191137188 certification from the American Board of Neurological Surgery, valid from November 2019 to December 2029, and is participating in the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
• ECFMG/USMLE Certification obtained in 2005.
• License from the Medical Board of Canada (LMCC) obtained in 2005.
• Graduate Certificate in Human Research was obtained from Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, Oregon, USA in 2011.
• Membership in the European Board of Neurosurgery (FEBNS) began in 1998.
• Certificate in the specialty of Neurosurgery from the Republic of Turkey, issued by the Ministry of Health, obtained in 1998.
• Membership in the Turkish Neurosurgery Board (TND) started in 2006.

• From 2012 to 2023, he worked in various medical facilities including Randall Children’s Hospital, Legacy Emanuel Hospital, Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon, USA.
• From 2014 to 2023, he worked at Providence Saint Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Illinois, USA.
• From 2014 to 2023, he was also involved with Berk Neurosurgical LLC, a private neurosurgical clinic in Portland, Ohio, USA.

• Currently serving as Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Kocaeli University of Health and Technology (KOSTU), Kocaeli, Turkey.

• Active speaker at various national and international conferences.
• He has authored more than 80 scientific publications in international and national scientific journals and publications.
• Also has many publications and press articles.