Prof. Dr.
Emre Acaroğlu
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Medical Unit: Orthopedics and Traumatology
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Turkey, Ankara
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35+ Years Experience
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Prof. Dr. Emre Acaroğlu is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Memorial Ankara Hospital, where he has worked since 2017 in orthopedics, the Spinal Health Center and oncological surgery. He trained at Hacettepe University, completed spine surgery training at Columbia University in New York and was a visiting instructor at the University of California San Francisco. His work covers scoliosis, kyphosis, spinal fractures, spinal tumors and spinal fusion surgery.
Professional Profile
+About
Prof. Dr. Emre Acaroğlu is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Memorial Ankara Hospital, where he has worked since 2017 in orthopedics, the Spinal Health Center and oncological surgery. He trained at Hacettepe University, completed spine surgery training at Columbia University in New York and was a visiting instructor at the University of California San Francisco. His work covers scoliosis, kyphosis, spinal fractures, spinal tumors and spinal fusion surgery.
+Education
- 1980-1986 - Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara - medical degree
- 1986-1991 - Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara - specialization in orthopedics and traumatology
- 1993-1994 - Columbia University, New York, USA - spine surgery specialization training
+Experience
- 2017-present - Memorial Ankara Hospital - Orthopedics and Traumatology (Spinal Health Center, Oncological Surgery Center, Oncology Center)
- 2009-2017 - Ankara Spine Center - Orthopedics and Traumatology specialist
- 2003-2004 - University of California San Francisco, USA - Visiting Instructor
- 1991-2009 - Hacettepe University, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology
+Memberships
- AO Spine
- EuroSpine (European Spine Society)
- Scoliosis Research Society (Associate Member)
- Turkish Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (TOTBİD)
- Turkish Orthopedics and Traumatology Education Council (TOTEK)
- Turkish Spine Society
+Research
- Adult spinal deformity: outcomes, decision-making and quality of life (European Spine Study Group)
- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: causes and experimental models
- Congenital and early-onset spinal deformity in children
- Spinal tumors and tuberculous spondylitis
- Spinal instrumentation biomechanics
- Global Spine Care Initiative and spine care in underserved communities
- More than 100 PubMed/SCI-listed publications, 4 book chapters and 1 book
+International Papers
Yilgor C, Sogunmez N, Boissiere L, et al.; European Spine Study Group. Global Alignment and Proportion (GAP) Score: Development and Validation of a New Method of Analyzing Spinopelvic Alignment to Predict Mechanical Complications After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. J Bone Joint...
- Yilgor C, Sogunmez N, Boissiere L, et al.; European Spine Study Group. Global Alignment and Proportion (GAP) Score: Development and Validation of a New Method of Analyzing Spinopelvic Alignment to Predict Mechanical Complications After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2017;99(19):1661-1672
- Acaroglu E; European Spine Study Group. Decision-making in the treatment of adult spinal deformity. EFORT Open Rev. 2017;1(5):167-176
- Acaroğlu E, Mmopelwa T, Yüksel S, et al. The Global Spine Care Initiative: a consensus process to develop and validate a stratification scheme for surgical care of spinal disorders. Eur Spine J. 2017
- Acaroglu E, Yavuz AC, Guler UO, et al.; European Spine Study Group. A decision analysis to identify the ideal treatment for adult spinal deformity: is surgery better than non-surgical treatment in improving health-related quality of life and decreasing the disease burden? Eur Spine J. 2016
- Acaroglu E, Bobe R, Enouf J, Marcucio R, Moldovan F, Moreau A. The metabolic basis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: 2011 report of the metabolic workgroup of the Fondation Yves Cotrel. Eur Spine J. 2012;21(6):1033-42
- Acaroglu ER, Iatridis JC, Setton LA, Foster RJ, Mow VC, Weidenbaum M. Degeneration and aging affect the tensile behavior of human lumbar anulus fibrosus. Spine. 1995;20(24):2690-701
- Acaroglu E, Yazici M, Alanay A, Surat A. Three-dimensional evolution of scoliotic curve during instrumentation without fusion in young children. J Pediatr Orthop. 2002;22(4):492-6
- Acaroglu RE, Demirkiran G. Management of spine tumors in young children. In: Akbarnia BA, Yazici M, Thompson GH (eds). The Growing Spine. Springer; 2011
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