Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Cem Dural, MD – General Surgery
– Dr. Instructor Member Bahar Canbay,
– Prof. Dr. Koray Karabulut (Optional – Pancreas Neuroendocrine),
– Assoc. Dr. Emre Sivrikoz (Optional – GIS Neuroendocrine),
* Can teach certain theoretical courses in Endocrinology, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Optional).
Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Cem Dural, MD was born in 1978 in Ankara. He completed his primary education at Private Tarabya Dost Primary School and his secondary education at Galatasaray High School. After graduating from Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, which he started in 1997, he started his specialization training at Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery in 2003. He completed his state service obligation at Iğdır State Hospital between 2009-2012. In 2012, Bakırköy Dr. Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital was appointed to the General Surgery Clinic as a specialist doctor.
He worked as an Endocrine Surgery Fellow at the Endocrine Surgery Center of the Cleveland Clinic Hospital, Ohio, USA, where he went with the Turkish Surgical Society Scholarship in 2014. In 2015, he worked as an Endocrine Surgery Clinical Fellow at the Swedish Karolinska University Hospital, Endocrine Surgery and Sarcoma Center, where he went with the European Society of Endoscopic Surgery Scholarship. Also in 2015, he successfully completed the exam organized by the European Association of Medical Specialists and the European Society of Endocrine Surgery and received the European Endocrine Surgery Competence Certificate.
In 2016, he worked in the field of Translational Medicine at the Apoptosis Research Center at the University of Ottawa, Canada for 9 months. He received the title of Associate Professor in 2017. Between 2017-2021, Health Sciences University, Bakırköy Dr. He worked as a Training Assistant at Sadi Konuk Health Application and Research Center, General Surgery Clinic. In 2021, he started to work as a general surgery specialist at LIV Hospital Ulus and Vadistanbul Hospitals. In 2022, he was appointed as an associate professor to Istinye University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery. He is still an active member of many national and international endocrine surgery and minimally invasive surgery associations. Dural is a member of the Board of the Endocrine Surgery Association and the General Secretary of the Association.
Surgical treatments of thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal gland diseases and cancers, minimally invasive surgery and robotic surgery applications are of special interest. He has over 80 articles published in national and international journals.
About Training Program
Aims and Objectives of Training:
Theoretical and practical training on surgical treatment of Thyroid Gland, Parathyroid Gland and Adrenal Gland diseases, current treatment and surgical methods, auxiliary technological equipment in current use, surgical quality standardization, perioperative multidisciplinary patient management. Opportunity to actively participate in surgical practices and multidisciplinary meetings
Content of Training:
– Thyroidectomy technique; classical, minimally invasive, remote access surgical methods
– Use of nerve monitoring in thyroid surgery
– Energy device use in thyroid surgery
– Other auxiliary methods used in thyroid surgery
– Patient preparation, perioperative patient management in thyroid surgery
– Management of complications in thyroid surgery
– Perioperative multidisciplinary management in thyroid cancer surgery
– Neck dissection in thyroid cancer surgery; definitions, concepts, scope of surgery, management of complications
– Approach to Medullary Thyroid Cancer and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) Syndromes
– Current techniques in parathyroid surgery; classic 4 gland exploration, focused minimally invasive surgery, video-assisted surgery, remote access parathyroid surgery
– Multidisciplinary approach to Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism
– Current imaging methods in hyperparathyroidism
– Approach to unidentified parathyroid adenoma
– Diagnostic tools in adrenal gland diseases
– Approach to adrenal incidentaloma
– Surgical treatment of adrenal gland diseases; laparoscopic and robotic surgery
– Preference of surgical method and approach in adrenal gland surgery
– Multidisciplinary management of adrenocortical cancer
– Surgery in adrenocortical cancer
– Diagnosis and perioperative management of neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NET)
– Surgical management of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
– Endoscopic and surgical management of Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors
– Current approaches in medical treatment of Neuroendocrine Tumors
Language of Training: English
Training Method: Online Theory, Face to face Theory + Practice
Target Audience of Training: General Surgery Specialists, Lecturers (junior)
Target Audience Branch of Training: General Surgery
Training Location: Liv Hospital Ulus + Liv Hospital Vadistanbul
Duration of Training: 1 Month
