Clinical focus

Experience

• Current Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital Robotic Thorax Surgery Program Director
• 2019 – 2024 West Virginia University, Division of Thoracic Surgery Head Division of Thoracic Surgery
• 2009 – 2019 Group Florence Nightingale Hospitals Thoracic Surgery Program Director

Education & training

• 2019 West Virginia University, School of Medicine Vice Chairman of Thoracic Surgery and Program Director of Tracheal Surgery
• 2010 – 2019 Istanbul University Medical Faculty Professor of Thoracic Surgery and Head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery
• 2001 – 2019 Istanbul University Medical Faculty Department of Thoracic Surgery
• 2001 Gulhane Military Medical Academy Thoracic Surgery Service
• 1997 – 1999 Istanbul University Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery
• 1992 Marmara University Faculty of Medicine

Selected publications

• • A1. Toker, A., K. Bostancı, D.Yılmazbayhan, E. Dayıoğlu ve E. Onursal, “Effects of ventilation on lung function after normorthermic ischemia”, Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann , 7,309-312 (1999).
• • A2. Onursal, E., A. Toker, K. Bostancı, U. Alpagut ve E. Tireli, “A complication of pectus excavatum operation: Endomyocardial steel strut”, Ann Thorac Surg, 68, 1082-1083 (1999).
• • A3. Toker, A., V. Özcan ve E. Tireli, “Aortobronchial fistula after coarctation repair”, Ann Thorac Surg, 69,666-667 (2000).
• • A4. Toker, A., E. Tireli, K. Bostancı, V. Özcan ve E. Dayıoğlu, “Uncommon complication of arterial switch operation: Tracheobronchial compression”, Ann Thorac Surg, 69, 927-929 (2000).
• • A5. Toker, A., A. Turna ve A.Gürses, “Pleural tent after upper lobectomy: Routine or selective ?”, Ann Thorac Surg, 71, 2083 (2001).
• • A6. Metin, M., A. Toker ve A. Gürses, “Physiological exclusion of the lung. When ?”, Eur J Cardiothorac Surg, 20, 1065-1066 (2001).
• • A7. Işıtmangil, T., Ş. Sebit, H. Tunç, R. Görür, O. Erdik, S. Pocan, E. Kunter, A. Toker, K. Balkanlı ve Ö.Y. Öztürk, “Clinical experience of surgical therapy in 207 patients with thoracic hydatosis over a 12-year- period”, Swiss Med Wkly, 132,548-552 (2002).
• • A8. Akın, H., D. Yılmazbayhan, Z. Kılıçaslan, Ş. Dilege, O. Doğan, A. Toker ve G. Kalaycı, “Clinical significance of P16 (INK4A) and retinoblastoma proteins in non-small cell lung carcinoma”, Lung Cancer, 38, 253-260 (2002).
• • A9. Dilege, Ş., Y. Bayrak, A. Toker ve G. Kalaycı, “Cystic mass in soft tissue: is further investigation needed ?”, Can J Surg, 45, 305-306 (2002).
• • A10. Toker, A., T. Işıtmangil, O. Erdik, I. Sancaklı ve Ş. Sebit, “Analysis of chest injuries sustained during the 1999 Marmara Earthquake”, Surg Today, 32, 769-771 (2002).
• • A11. Toker, A., Ş. Dilege ve G. Kalaycı, “Combined left pneumonectomy and off pump coronary artery by pass: Principles of lung cancer surgery”, Eur J Cardiothorac Surg, 21, 370-371 (2002).
• • A12. Dilege, Ş., A. Toker, S. Tanju ve G. Kalaycı, “An unusual intrapleural foreign body: Ignored aspiration”, Eur J Cardiothorac Surg, 21, 593-594 (2002).
• • A13. Işıtmangil, T., A. Toker, R. Görür ve Ş. Sebit, “A novel dissemination pathway of hydatid cyst”, Eur J Cardiothorac Surg, 21, 1127-1128 (2002).
• • A14. Toker, A., S. Tanju, Ş. Dilege ve G. Kalaycı, “Sleeve resection of the right main bronchus for postlobectomy bronchopleural fistula”, Eur J Cardiothorac Surg, 22, 1020-1022 (2002).
• • A15. Dilege, Ş., M. Aksoy, I. Okan, A. Toker, G. Kalaycı ve M. Demiryont, “Hydatid cystic disease of the soft tissues with pulmonary and hepatic involvement:report of a case”, Surg Today, 33, 69-71 (2003).
• • A16. Toker, A., Ş. Dilege, S. Tanju, A. Kıyan ve G. Kalaycı, “Perioperative pneumoperitoneum after lobectomy-bilobectomy operations for lung cancer:a prospective study”, Thorac Cardiov Surg, 51, 93-96 (2003).
• • A17. Işıtmangil, T., A. Toker, Ş. Şebit, O. Erdik, H. Tunç ve R. Görür, “A novel terminology and dissemination theory for a subgroup of intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cysts”, Medical Hypothesis, 61(1), 68-71 (2003).
• • A18. Bostancı, K., A. Toker, Y. Bayrak, Ş. Dilege, M. Şentürk ve M. Tuğrul, “Dose related effects of theophylline added to modified Euro-Collins solution used for hypothermic preservation of lung”, J Thoracic and Cardiovasc Anesth
• • 17(6), 721-4, (2004)
• • A19. Toker, A., S. Tanju, Y. Bayrak, E. Çenesiz, N. Güler, Ş. Dilege ve G. Kalaycı, “Life threatening hemoptysis in a child: the only symptom”, Ann Thorac Surg 77(1), 336-8, (2004).
• • A20. Dilege, Ş., A. Toker, S. Tanju, S. Ziyade, Z. Kılıçaslan, D. Yılmazbayhan ve G. Kalaycı, “Chest wall invasion in lung cancer patients”, Acta Chir Belg, 103(4), 396-400 (2003).
• • A21. Toker, A., S. Tanju, Ş. Dilege ve G. Kalaycı, “Foreign body aspiration: Where can it be ?” , Eur J Cardiothorac Surg, 24, 301 (2003).
• • A22. Toker, A., Y. Bayrak, Ş. Dilege ve G. Kalaycı, “How to approach a left sided stab wound in the neck, with isolated tracheal laceration?”, Acta Chir Belg, 103(4), 428-430 (2003) .
• • A23. Toker, A., Y. Bayrak, S. Tanju, S. Ziyade, O. Eroğlu, D. Yılmazbayhan, Ş. Dilege ve G. Kalaycı, “Invasive staging of superior mediastinum in non small cell lung cancer patients with specific indications”, ICVTS , (2), 472-476, (2003)
• • A24. Dilege S, Toker A, Tanju S, Kalayci G, “Radiopathology and positive pressure ventilation in diaphragmatic hernia” Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann, 13,398 (2005)
• • A25. Dilege S, Toker A, Tanju S, Bayrak Y, Kalayci G,“Resection of the tracheal carina in an 8 year old child”, Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 53(3),183-184, (2005)
• • A26.Toker A, Eroğlu O, Ziyade S, Tanju S, Senturk M, Dilege S, Kalayci G, “Comparison of early postoperative results of thymectomy:partial sternotomy vs videothoracoscopy”, Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 53(2), 110-3, (2005)
• • A27. Toker A, Eroğlu O, Tanju S, Dilege S, kalayci G, Buyukbabani N, “An unusual localization of thymoma”, Acta Chir Belg, 105(2), 219-20, (2005)
• • A28. Guler N, Kirerleri E, Baslo G, Ones U, Tamay Z, Toker A, Tepe S, “Computed tomography bronchography in a child with a bronchial carcinoid tumor”, Pediatr Int, 47(1), 99-101, (2005)
• • A29. Senturk M, Layer M, Pembeci k, Toker A, Akpir k, Wiedemann K, “A comparison of the effects of 50% oxygen combined with CPAP to the non-ventilated lung vs 100 % oxygen during one lung ventilation”, Anesthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 39(6), 360-4, (2004)