Doctor Professor Arif Turkmen

1982–1988 — Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine (Turkey)

1988–1994 — Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, specialization in General Surgery

1994–2006 — Specialization in Plastic Surgery at leading university hospitals in the UK:

• University College London Hospital

• Cambridge University Addenbrooke Hospital

• Sheffield Teaching Hospital

• Nottingham University Hospital

• Manchester University Wythenshawe Hospital

• Harley Street Clinic, London

2007 — Equivalency diploma in Plastic Surgery, Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa

2007 — Fellowship in Microsurgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan

Since 2022 — Founder and Chief Surgeon, Private Clinic of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery (Istanbul)

2018–2022 — Professor, Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine

2013–2017 — Associate Professor, Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine

2008–2013 — Associate Professor, Gaziantep University, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery

2006–2007 — Consultant in Plastic and Hand Microsurgery, Whiston Hospital, UK

1995–2006 — Plastic Surgeon in university hospitals across the UK

1994–1995 — General Surgeon, Orhangazi Devlet Hastanesi, Turkey

First Turkish surgeon to pass the European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (EBOPRAS) examination

Gold Medal of the European Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (2005)

Member of:

• Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS)

• Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow (FRCS Glasg)

• European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (EBOPRAS)

• European Hand Diploma

• Turkish Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

• Turkish Society for Surgery of the Hand

• Turkish Society for Microsurgery

Author of 30 publications in national and 25 in international journals

Speaker at over 100 scientific conferences worldwide