Professional Experience

Family Physician / Solo Practice | Adana, Türkiye | 2018 – Present

• Provide comprehensive independent primary clinical treatments, chronic condition management, and customized wellness consultations to an extensive registry of private patients.

• Champion community-wide preventive care; write medical columns for regional/national publications and deliver regular expert public health advice on national TV networks.

Occupational Physician | Adana, Türkiye | 2009 – Present

• Lead the corporate Occupational Health and Safety department, managing urgent interventions and extensive primary clinical evaluations.

• Coordinate pre-employment physical assessments, periodic fitness-for-duty evaluations, and structured return-to-work testing protocols.

• Perform recurring rigorous hazardous material exposures, ergonomic workplace audits, and regulatory hygiene risk assessments.

Check-up Physician, Occupational Physician & Clinic Founder | Acıbadem Adana Hospital — Adana, Türkiye | 2012 – 2018

• Founded, physically structured, and managed the specialized Check-up / Health and Wellness Clinic within the hospital layout.

• Designed highly specialized health risk screening methodologies and executive check-up matrices.

• Simultaneously served as Occupational Physician to manage institutional occupational health campaigns, workspace safety audits, and emergency staff interventions.

• Actively participated as an internal medical auditor during the formal Joint Commission International (JCI) Accreditation process in 2016.

• Honored as the "Best Check-up Physician" across the entire nationwide Acıbadem Healthcare Group (13 hospitals) for two consecutive years (2015, 2016).

Primary Care Physician — Family Practice Clinic | 39th Medical Group, U.S. Air Force Base — Incirlik, Adana, Türkiye | 2007 – 2012

• Delivered high-tier, evidence-based comprehensive primary care to international military service personnel and their dependents.

• Diagnosed, managed, and treated acute and chronic pediatric/adult diseases, interpreted complex laboratory/radiological assays, and implemented treatment pathways under strict NATO/USAF military clinical guidelines.

Vice Head Physician, Medical Director for Informatics & Family Physician | Anatolia Hospital — Antalya, Türkiye | 2002 – 2007

• Spearheaded executive operational planning, logistical structuring, and the regulatory launch phases of the largest private hospital facility in Antalya (2005).

• Appointed as Vice Head Physician and Medical Director for Informatics; oversaw multi-departmental medical staff compliance, night-shift hospital supervision (MOD), and hospital information system (HIS) software rollouts.

• Maintained direct clinical practice, providing outpatient consultations within the Family Medicine Clinic and executive health panel screenings within the Check-up Center.

• Led the hospital framework to secure the formal ISO 9001:2000 Quality Certification survey.

Vice Head Physician & Family Medicine Specialist | Bahçe State Hospital — Osmaniye, Türkiye | 2000 – 2002

• Managed public hospital clinical strategies, public health guidelines, and clinical resource optimization as the Vice Head Physician while holding full outpatient clinical family practice responsibilities.

Vocational Education & Training

Family Medicine Residency | 1996 – 2000

• 1996–1998 (Turkish Ministry of Health Adana Training and Research Hospital): Inpatient and outpatient clinical management across Internal Medicine and General Surgery departments. Supervisors: Prof. Sunay Sandıkçı, M.D. & Ömer Uluçay, M.D.

• 1998–2000 (Çukurova University Balcalı Hospital): Advanced clinical residency rotations in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry, and active consulting inside the Family Medicine Department Medical Center. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Cüneyt Evrüke, M.D., Prof. Dr. Nurdan Evliyaoğlu, M.D., Prof. Dr. Bekir Aydın Levent, M.D., Prof. Dr. Ayşe Avcı, M.D., and Prof. Dr. Nafiz Bozdemir, M.D.

Medical Doctor (M.D.) | 1987 – 1993

• İstanbul University, İstanbul Faculty of Medicine (Çapa Tıp Fakültesi) — İstanbul, Türkiye

• Completed a rigorous 12-month rotating internship across diverse urban and rural public care infrastructures (1995–1996).

Associate Degree in Health Institutions Administration | 2018 – 2020

• Anadolu University Open Education Faculty — Eskişehir, Türkiye

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Postgraduate Certifications & Continuing Medical Education (CME)

• Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care (Harvard Medical School & Pri-Med, Washington D.C., 2016)

• Clinical Issues in Primary Care (Harvard Medical School & Pri-Med, Rosemont, IL, 2010)

• Primary Care Now Virtual CME Conference (Boston, MA, 2020).

• U.S. Air Force (39th MDG Incirlik AFB): 

  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certifications & Refreshers (2007- 2012)

  • Healthcare Information Privacy (HIPAA Training)

  • Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation (MEIR)

  • Hazardous Materials Awareness

  • Operational Security (OPSEC)

  • Healthcare Law.

• JCI Accreditation Standards Training (Antalya, 2005) | 

• Training Trainers Course in Family Medicine (Çukurova Univ. & Israel Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, 1998) | 

• Occupational Medicine License Certification (Turkish Medical Association, 1999)

• Life Support Course in Delivery (1998).

• Organizing Committee Member & Expert Lecturer ("Professional Office Management"), 4th National Family Medicine Days & 2nd European Systemic Family Medicine Conference (Antalya, 2007).

• Certified Medical-Legal Consultant, Issued by Turkish Medical Association (TTB), (2025)

 

Humanitarian & Volunteer Medical Fieldwork

• Sub-Saharan Africa Deployment (Volunteer Humanitarian Medical Officer) | 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

  • Democratic Republic of Congo (2007, 2008): Deployed twice voluntarily to manage emergency triages, rural infection outbreaks, and humanitarian aid.

  • Zanzibar - Tanzania (2009) & Uganda (2010): Delivered clinical support, preventive epidemiological field screenings, and primary health infrastructure coaching.

• Marmara (Gölcük) Earthquake Epicenter, Türkiye (Volunteer Disaster Relief Physician) | 1999

  • Mobilized to provide urgent field treatments, trauma stabilization, and critical infectious disease prevention under the French NGO / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) network.

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• Professional Affiliations: American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) | World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA - Passive) | Turkish Society of Family Physicians (TAHUD) | Turkish Medical Association (TTB).

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• Special Awards:

  • Best Check-up Physician Award, Acıbadem Healthcare Group (Nationwide: 2015, 2016)

  • First Prize Laureate, Wyeth National Scientific Research Contest (1999) — Awarded for specialized clinical research focusing on regional breastfeeding methodologies.

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• Languages: Turkish (Native), English (Fluent / Full Clinical Working & Professional Proficiency), German (Conversational).

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• Skills & Interests: Digital Publishing, Piano, Calligraphy, Tennis, Bicycling, Sailing.