Born: Istanbul, 1937
Medical School:
Medical Faculty, Ankara Univ ersity, 1961
Medical Training:
Department of General Surgery, Giessen-
Department of Traumatology, Unfall-
Visiting fellow, Hand Surgery Departm ent, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Orthopaedic Hospital, New York , 1971
"Associate Professorship"degree in General Surgery, 1973
Microsurgery training, Hospital Jeanne D'Arc, Nancy, France, 1978
Major Appointments:
Hacettepe Medical Univer sity, General Surgery Clinic
Faculty Member and Head of Emergency Departm ent, 1969-
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical Faculty of Istanbul, 1976-
Hand and Microsurgeon , French Pasteur Hospital, 1978.
Established the first Reconstructive Microsurgica l Clinic in Turkey together with his team.
Medical Faculty of Marmara University
Participated in foundation, 1980
Professor (thesis: "Finger Replantations") , 1980
Militar y Service:
Department of Plastic and Reconstructiv e Surgery; Gulhane Military Academy, 1974-
Memberships of Organisations include:
Turkish Orthopaedic and Traumatology Society
Turkish Society of Physiological Sciences
Inerplast Turkey
Turkish Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Turkish Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery
Austrian Emergency Surgery
GEM (Groupe Etude de la Main)
DAM (Deutschsprachige Arbeeitsgemeinschaft für Mikrochirurgieder Peripheren Nerven und Gefasse)
DAH ( Deutschsprachige Arbeeitsg emeinschaft für Handchirurgie)
American Society for Surgery of the Hand
Jordanian Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
International Board of Physicians for Peace
Emergency Hand Care and Microsurgeal Society (ACELEMDER)
Lectures and Publications include:
Multiple Honorary Lectureships I Visiting Professorships and invited guest
lectures
Faculty member of multiple nationa l and international meetings
Multiple journal articles and publications
Eczacibasi Science Award , 1979 Medical Science Award , 1994
IFSSH Pioneer of Hand Surgery, 2013
Professor Ayan Gülgönen passed away on August 25, 2016.
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