Clinical focus

Experience

• Present Istanbul Florence Nigthingale Hospital Professor & Head of Department, General Surgery and Surgical Oncology
• 2015–2017 İnönü University Faculty of Medicine Professor, Department of General Surgery
• 2007–2015 İnönü University Faculty of Medicine Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery
• 2002–2007 Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital Chief Assistant, Department of General Surgery
• 2001–2002 Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital Specialist, Department of General Surgery
• 1997–2001 Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital Assistant, Department of General Surgery
• 1996–1997 Rize Fındıklı Central Health Center General Practitioner

Education & training

• 2010 University of Giessen-Marburg, Germany Training in Transplantation and Oncology Surgery
• 2008 Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA NCI Short-Term Scientist
• 2012 İnönü University Faculty of Medicine Minor specialty in Surgical Oncology
• 2001 Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital Specialization in General Surgery
• 1996 Çukurova University, School of Medicine

Selected publications

• Selected Articles and Papers:
• Authored numerous articles published in international refereed journals, including Nagoya Medical Journal, Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Journal of Surgical Oncology, and many others from 2001 through 2020. Research topics include breast cancer, colorectal carcinoma, hydatid disease, pancreatitis, sentinel lymph node biopsy, liver transplantation, surgical oncology, kidney transplantation, and other areas of general and oncologic surgery. Notable publications during professorship and associate professorship include studies on:Lobular carcinoma in situ and ductoscopy in breast cancer (Breast Journal, 2010) Screening for gastric cancer in liver transplant patients (Pakistan Journal of Medicine, 2010) Acute traumatic diaphragmatic rupture (Surgery Today, 2011) Living donor liver transplantation techniques and outcomes (Transplantation Proceedings, 2012–2015) Predictive models for non-sentinel axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer (Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2009) Postoperative complications and surgical innovations in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery
• Authored numerous articles published in international refereed journals, including Nagoya Medical Journal, Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Journal of Surgical Oncology, and many others from 2001 through 2020.
• Research topics include breast cancer, colorectal carcinoma, hydatid disease, pancreatitis, sentinel lymph node biopsy, liver transplantation, surgical oncology, kidney transplantation, and other areas of general and oncologic surgery.
• Notable publications during professorship and associate professorship include studies on:Lobular carcinoma in situ and ductoscopy in breast cancer (Breast Journal, 2010) Screening for gastric cancer in liver transplant patients (Pakistan Journal of Medicine, 2010) Acute traumatic diaphragmatic rupture (Surgery Today, 2011) Living donor liver transplantation techniques and outcomes (Transplantation Proceedings, 2012–2015) Predictive models for non-sentinel axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer (Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2009) Postoperative complications and surgical innovations in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery
• Lobular carcinoma in situ and ductoscopy in breast cancer (Breast Journal, 2010)
• Screening for gastric cancer in liver transplant patients (Pakistan Journal of Medicine, 2010)
• Acute traumatic diaphragmatic rupture (Surgery Today, 2011)
• Living donor liver transplantation techniques and outcomes (Transplantation Proceedings, 2012–2015)
• Predictive models for non-sentinel axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer (Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2009)
• Postoperative complications and surgical innovations in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery
• Books / Activity List (Professorship and Before Associate Professorship)
• B1. Ünal B., Soran A., Koçer B., Ulaş M., Karabeyoğlu M., Bozkurt B., Cengiz Ö., “The relation of thyroid volume with thyroidectomy complications,” 4th Annual Meeting European Society of Surgery, PP319, Krakow, Poland, December 3–6, 2000.
• B2. Koçer B., Bozkurt B., Ünal B., Karabeyoğlu M., Yıldırım O., Eroğlu A., Cengiz Ö., “Do clinicopathologic parameters and prognosis differ in patients over 60 with colorectal cancer?” Joint Meeting of M.S.C.P and T.A.C.S and 9th Turkish National Congress of Colorectal Surgery, PP54, Antalya, Turkey, September 9–13, 2001.
• B3. Koçer B., Bozkurt B., Ünal B., Yıldırım O., Karabeyoğlu M., Eroğlu A., Cengiz Ö., “Factors that affect relapse and survival in patients with colorectal cancer,” Joint Meeting of M.S.C.P and T.A.C.S and 9th Turkish National Congress of Colorectal Surgery, PP37, Antalya, Turkey, September 9–13, 2001.
• B4. Bozkurt B., Ünal B., Yıldırım O., Karabeyoğlu M., Eroğlu A., Koçer B., Cengiz Ö., “The relationships between thyroid disorders and breast cancer,” Eurosurgery, Lisbon, Portugal, 2002.
• B5. Erel S., Koçer B., Yıldırım O., Bozkurt B., Karabeyoğlu M., Eroğlu A., Ünal B., Cengiz Ö., “Nonoperative treatment of traumatic pancreatic pseudocyst: Unusual soccer injury,” Turkish Journal of Trauma & Emergency Surgery, 5th European Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Ulusal Travma Dergisi 2002; Supplement 8(4): OP410, Istanbul, October 1, 2002.
• B6. Bozkurt B., Özdemir B., Koçer B., Ünal B., Yıldırım O., Cengiz Ö., “The operative approach to traumatic injuries of the duodenum,” 14th World Congress of International Association of Surgeon, Gastroenterologists, PP29.5, Zurich, September 9–12, 2004.
• B7. Koçer B., Solak C., Özel E., Bozkurt B., Ünal B., Yıldırım O., Cengiz Ö., “Predicting mortality and morbidity of patients operated on for perforated peptic ulcer,” 14th World Congress of International Association of Surgeon & Gastroenterology, Zurich, November 2004.
• B8. Yıldırım O., Solak C., Koçer B., Ünal B., Bozkurt B., Aksaray S., Cengiz Ö., “The role of serum inflammatory markers in acute appendicitis and success at preventing negative laparotomy,” 14th World Congress of the International Association of Surgeon, Gastroenterologists, PP34, Zurich, September 9–12, 2004.
• B9. Ünal B., Koçer B., Bozkurt B., Yıldırım O., Özel E., Altun B., Dolapçı M., Cengiz Ö., “Fournier gangrene: A review of 26 cases approaches to diagnosis and treatment,” International Surgical Week, PP2877, Durban, South Africa, August 21–25, 2005.
• B10. Bozkurt B., Özel E., Hüner T., Karabeyoğlu M., Ünal B., Dolapcı M., Cengiz Ö., “The changing approach to traumatic injury of the duodenum: Comparing two decades’ results, effecting factors on morbidity and mortality,” International Surgical Week, PP2663, Durban, South Africa, August 21–25, 2005.
• B11. Koçer B., Altun B., Balcı M., Sürmeli S., Ünal B., Karabeyoğlu M., Eroğlu A., Cengiz Ö., “Serum C-reactive protein and interleukin–6 reflect disease status of gastric cancer,” 15th World Congress of the International Association of Surgeons and Gastroenterologists (and Oncologists), HepatoGastroenterology, Suppl. I, 52, T05-PP14, Prague, September 7–10, 2005.
• B12. Karabeyoğlu M., Koçer B., Bozkurt B., Ünal B., Dolapçı M., Cengiz Ö., “Quality of life in patients undergoing inguinal hernia repair: Non-mesh suture repair vs. Lichtenstein procedure,” International Surgical Week, Durban, South Africa, August 21–25, 2005.
• B13. Koçer B., Yazihan N., Sürmeli S., Ünal B., Aksaray S., Cengiz Ö., Ataoğlu H., Soran A., “VEGFC/D ratio is an important predictive factor to determine lymph node metastasis in breast cancer,” Annals of Oncology, Vol. 17, Supp. 9: ESMO Congress, Istanbul, September 29–October 3, 2006.
• B14. Aydın S., Isik A.T., Ünal B., Özel E., Gonlusen C., Mas R., Cengiz Ö., “Is there any difference in thyroidectomy results and complications between elderly and younger age groups?” European Union Geriatric Medicine Society, The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2006.
• B15. Koçer B., Yazihan N., Sürmeli S., Ünal B., Aksaray S., Cengiz Ö., Ataoğlu H., Soran A., “The importance of serum IGF-I and VEGF-C/D ratio in lymph node metastasis,” Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 29th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 14–17, Vol. 100(1), P1012, 2006.
• B16. Gür A.S., Ünal B., Johnson R., Ahrendt G., Bonaventura M., Soran A., “The predictive probability of four different breast cancer nomograms for non-sentinel axillary lymph node metastasis in positive sentinel lymph node biopsy,” 31st San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, OP204, San Antonio, USA, 2008.
• B17. Ünal B., Karabeyoğlu M., Hüner T., Canbay E., Eroğlu A., Yıldırım O., Dolapcı M., Bilgihan A., Cengiz Ö., “Ethyl pyruvate protects colonic anastomosis from ischemia-reperfusion injury,” 18th World Congress of the International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists, HepatoGastroenterology, Suppl. I, Istanbul, Turkey, October 8–11, 2008.
• B18. Gür A.S., Ünal B., Bonaventura M., Johnson R., Soran A., “Can nomograms predict non-sentinel lymph node (NSLN) metastasis following neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer?” Breast Cancer Symposium: Integrating Emerging Science into Clinical Practice, Washington, DC, September 5–7, 2008.