Prof. Dr.
Ahmet Ziya Balta
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Medical Unit: Bariatric Surgery Center
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Turkey, Istanbul
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30+ Years Experience
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Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ziya Balta is a general surgeon at Medicana Ataşehir Hospital in Istanbul since 2025, focusing on obesity, metabolic and advanced laparoscopic surgery. He graduated from Gülhane Military Medical Academy in 1996 and specialised in general surgery at GATA Haydarpaşa Training Hospital (2006). He completed an advanced laparoscopic upper GI and bariatric surgery fellowship at AZ Sint-Jan Hospital, Bruges, and trained in colorectal surgery at Columbia University, New York.
Professional Profile
+About
Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ziya Balta is a general surgeon at Medicana Ataşehir Hospital in Istanbul since 2025, focusing on obesity, metabolic and advanced laparoscopic surgery. He graduated from Gülhane Military Medical Academy in 1996 and specialised in general surgery at GATA Haydarpaşa Training Hospital (2006). He completed an advanced laparoscopic upper GI and bariatric surgery fellowship at AZ Sint-Jan Hospital, Bruges, and trained in colorectal surgery at Columbia University, New York.
+Education
- 2018 - AZ Sint-Jan Hospital, Bruges, Belgium - advanced laparoscopic upper GI and bariatric surgery fellowship
- 2013 - Columbia University, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Colorectal Surgery Unit, New York, USA
- 2002-2006 - GATA Haydarpaşa Training Hospital, General Surgery Clinic - specialization
- 1996 - Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) - medical degree
+Experience
- 2025-present - Medicana Ataşehir Hospital
- 2019-2025 - private practice (Professor)
- 2016-2019 - Sultan Abdülhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Surgery Clinic, Istanbul (Associate Professor)
- 2009-2016 - GATA Haydarpaşa Training Hospital, General Surgery Clinic, Istanbul - general surgeon
- 2010-2011 - ISAF Atatürk Military Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan - general surgeon
- 2006-2009 - Şırnak Military Hospital - general surgeon
- 1996-1999 - Gülhane Military Medical Academy and Şırnak Military Hospital - general practitioner
+Memberships
- International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)
- Turkish Obesity Surgery Society
- Turkish Society for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
- European Hernia Society
- Turkish Hernia Society
- Turkish Surgical Society
- Turkish Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Turkish Association of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
+International Papers
Balta AZ, Filiz AI, Kurt Y, Sucullu I, Yucel E, Akin ML. Prognostic value of oncoprotein expressions in thyroid papillary carcinoma. Med Oncol Balta AZ, Sucullu I, Coskun M, Sinan H, Yucel E, Demirbas S. Is seton procedure for complex anal fistula associated better surgical outco...
- Balta AZ, Filiz AI, Kurt Y, Sucullu I, Yucel E, Akin ML. Prognostic value of oncoprotein expressions in thyroid papillary carcinoma. Med Oncol
- Balta AZ, Sucullu I, Coskun M, Sinan H, Yucel E, Demirbas S. Is seton procedure for complex anal fistula associated better surgical outcomes than fistulotomy?
- Ozdemir Y, Balta AZ, Duman K. Hernioscopy is a good option in strangulated inguinal hernias that retract under general anesthesia. Hernia 17(1):149
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