Prof. Dr.
Ahmet Ekin
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Medical Unit: Orthopedics and Traumatology
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Turkey, Izmir
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43+ Years Experience
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Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ekin is an orthopedic, hand and upper-extremity surgeon at Medical Point Izmir Hospital, where he has worked since 2011. A Hacettepe graduate and orthopedic specialist since 1983, he trained in hand and wrist microsurgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York in 1990-1991. At Dokuz Eylül University he founded the Hand Surgery division in 1993 and became professor in 1997. He performs shoulder, elbow and wrist arthroscopy, hand microsurgery and joint replacement.
Professional Profile
+About
Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ekin is an orthopedic, hand and upper-extremity surgeon at Medical Point Izmir Hospital, where he has worked since 2011. A Hacettepe graduate and orthopedic specialist since 1983, he trained in hand and wrist microsurgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York in 1990-1991. At Dokuz Eylül University he founded the Hand Surgery division in 1993 and became professor in 1997. He performs shoulder, elbow and wrist arthroscopy, hand microsurgery and joint replacement.
+Education
- Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine (MD)
- Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine - Orthopedics and Traumatology specialization
- 1990-1991 - Columbia University Presbyterian Medical Center, New York (USA) - Hand and wrist surgery and microsurgery training
- 1991 - Associate Professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology
- 1997 - Professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology
+Experience
- 2021-present - Medical Point Izmir Hospital, Orthopedics and Traumatology
- 2020 - Izmir University of Economics, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology
- 2011 - Medical Point Izmir Hospital
- 1997 - Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine - Professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology
- 1993 - Dokuz Eylül University - Founder of the Hand Surgery division
- 1987 - Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology - Assistant Professor
- 1986 - Izmir State Hospital (Atatürk Health Complex), Orthopedics and Traumatology - Chief Resident
- 1984-1985 - Erzincan State Hospital - Orthopedics specialist
- 1983-1984 - Kyrenia Military Hospital (Cyprus) - Orthopedics specialist
+Memberships
- Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie (SICOT) - since 1991
- European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and the Elbow (SECEC) - full member since 1995
- International and European Federations of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH / FESSH) - since 1992
- International Carroll Hand Club - since 1992
- Turkish Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (TOTBİD)
- Turkish Society for Surgery of the Hand and Upper Extremity
- Turkish Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
+Research
- Hand and wrist surgery and microsurgery
- Forearm arterial repair and vein grafting
- Peripheral nerve anatomy and entrapment (posterior interosseous nerve)
- Shoulder and elbow surgery, rotator cuff tears
- Wrist arthroscopy and distal radius fractures
- Glomus tumours of the hand
+International Papers
Tuncalı B, Karcı A, Tuncalı BE, Mavioğlu O, Özkan M, Bacakoğlu AK, Baydur H, Ekin A, Elar Z. A new method for estimating arterial occlusion pressure in optimizing pneumatic tourniquet inflation pressure. Anesth Analg. 2006;102(6):1752-1757. Bacakoğlu AK, Özkan M, Göktay AY, Ekin...
- Tuncalı B, Karcı A, Tuncalı BE, Mavioğlu O, Özkan M, Bacakoğlu AK, Baydur H, Ekin A, Elar Z. A new method for estimating arterial occlusion pressure in optimizing pneumatic tourniquet inflation pressure. Anesth Analg. 2006;102(6):1752-1757.
- Bacakoğlu AK, Özkan M, Göktay AY, Ekin A. Forearm arterial vein grafting: problems and alternative solutions. J Int Med Res. 2003;31:458-465.
- Bacakoğlu AK, Özkan M, Muratlı KS, Ekin A. Secondary delayed venous ischemia in flow-through radial forearm free flaps: a novel treatment technique. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2002;110:558-559.
- Bacakoğlu AK, Özkan M, Coşkunol E, Özdemir O, Ekin A. Multifactorial effects on the patency rates of forearm arterial repairs. Microsurgery. 2001;21:37-42.
- Özkan M, Bacakoğlu AK, Gül O, Ekin A, Mağden O. Anatomic study of posterior interosseous nerve in the arcade of Frohse. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 1999;8:617-620.
- Ekin A, Özkan M, Kabaklıoğlu T. Subungual glomus tumours: a different approach to diagnosis and treatment. J Hand Surg Br. 1997;22:228-229.
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