Prof. Dr. Serdar TÜRKYILMAZ

He was born in 1967 in Trabzon. He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine in 1991.
He completed his general surgery residency training in 2003 at Karadeniz Technical University(KTU), Faculty
of Medicine, Department of General Surgery.
In 2007, he completed kidney transplantation education at Akdeniz University Organ Transplantation
Center. Also, he founded the kidney transplant center in Karadeniz Technical University in 2008 and
performed the first kidney transplant in the same year. After that, he established burn unit in 2009. He
became an associate professor in 2011 and appointed as professor of general surgery in 2016. In same year,
he improved burn unit and made it the first and only burn care center in the Eastern Blacksea Region in
Turkey.
He has been the head of department of general surgery in KTU since 2016. He has over 100 national
and international publications. He is the founder and chairman of Karadeniz Surgical Society.
His research Interests as listed below:
✓ Kidney transplant
✓ Burn
✓ Breast and Endocrine surgery (breast cancer, thyroid cancer, laparoscopic surrenal
surgery)
✓ Laparoscopic surgery
✓ Cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC
✓ Hernia surgery (laparoscopic and open, primer and incisional)
✓ Oncological surgery.