Faculty of Medicine

Academic Members

Prof. Ahmet Cem Dural

Prof.
Ahmet Cem Dural

Dr. Ahmet Cem Dural was born in 1978. He completed his primary school at Tarabya Dost Private School, secondary and high school at Galatasaray High School. He is graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine in 2003 and completed his surgical residency at Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery in 2009. Between 2009 – 2012 he worked as staff surgeon in Igdir State Hospital, Igdir (Compulsory Medical Service). He was appointed as staff surgeon at 2012 in Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Training & Research Hospital. He worked as postdoctoral research fellow in Cleveland Clinic, Endocrine Surgery Division in 2014, scholarship granted by Turkish Surgical Association. He worked as clinical fellow in Karolinska University Hospital, Department of Endocrine Surgery and Sarcoma Unit, scholarship granted by European Association for Endoscopic Surgeons. He received European Board of Endocrine Surgery in 2015. In 2016, he worked as clinical/research fellow in University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Apoptosis Research Centre in field of Translational Medicine. He received Associate Professor degree of Surgery in March 2017. He worked as Consultant Endocrine Surgeon in University of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Practice & Research Center, Department of Surgery between 2017-2021. He is currently a member of many national and international associations for endocrine surgery and minimally invasive surgery and he is a member of Executive Committee and Secretary of Turkish Association of Endocrine Surgery. He is specifically interested in surgical management of thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal gland diseases and cancers, also minimally invasive and robotic surgical procedures. He has more than 80 articles published in national and international journals.

Araştırma Alanları

  • Endocrine Surgery
  • Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Clinical adaptation of auxiliary methods and multidisciplinary approach to changing trends in parathyroid surgery, 2021
  • Monoclonal/polyclonal PAX-8, PTH and GATA3 immunohistochemistry in parathyroid lesions, 2021
  • Risk factors affecting failure of colonoscopic detorsion for sigmoid colon volvulus: a single center experience, 2021
  • Technological Advances Have Improved Surgical Outcome in Thyroid Surgery: Myth or Reality?, 2021
  • Hormonally Active Adrenal Tumors; Challenges and Outcomes for Different Surgical Approaches, 2021
  • Comparison of laparoscopic and conventional graham\u2019s omentopexy in peptic ulcer perforation: A single center experience, 2021
  • Evaluation of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Terms of Endoscopic, Pathological and Laboratory Findings, 2021
  • Endocrine Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations from Endocrine Surgery Society of Turkey, 2020
  • Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on general surgical emergencies: are some emergencies really urgent? Level 1 trauma center experience, 2020
  • Emergency surgery of the abdominal wall hernias: risk factors that increase morbidity and mortality\u2014a single-center experience, 2020
  • Association between Acute Pancreatitis and COVID-19: Could Pancreatitis Be the Missing Piece of the Puzzle about Increased Mortality Rates?, 2020
  • Pure transoral robotic thyroidectomy; institutional adaptation and early results from a tertiary endocrine surgery centre, 2020
  • Analysis of general surgery outpatient clinic admissions and operations during COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey: Reactions of 12728 patients, 2020
  • Robotic transperitoneal adrenalectomy from inception to ingenuity: the perspective on two high volume endocrine surgery centers, 2020
  • Reticulin staining pattern in the differential diagnosis of benign parathyroid lesions, 2020
  • Transperitoneal laparoscopic surgery in large adrenal masses, 2020
  • Assessment of Bone Mineral Density in Patients with Incidental Parathyroidectomy during Thyroidectomy, 2020
  • The role of selective venous sampling in patients with non-localized primary hyperparathyroidism, 2020
  • Feasibility of Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System Classification in Predicting Thyroid Malignancy, 2019
  • Effect of intraoperative neuromonitoring on efficacy and safety using sugammadex in thyroid surgery: randomized clinical trial, 2019
  • Comparison of Cleft Lift and Limberg Flap Techniques for Pilonidal Sinus Surgery, 2019
  • An analysis of preoperative sonographic findings and fine-needle aspiration biopsy results of thyroidectomy cases, 2019
  • Long Axis to Short Axis Ratio of Breast Masses Pre-Diagnosed as Fibroadenomas on Ultrasonography. Can it Be a Useful Tool in Predicting Malignancy?, 2019
  • İNTRADUKTAL PAPİLLOM OLGULARININ CERRAHİ SONRASI DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ; RADYOLOJİK VE PATOLOJİK BULGULARIN KORELASYONU, 2019
  • Emergency Cholecystectomy Versus Percutaneous Cholecystostomy for Treatment of Acute Cholecystitis in High-Risk Surgical Patients, 2018
  • An Undesirable Post-Thyroidectomy Surprise for the Surgeon: Inadvertent Parathyroidectomy, 2018
  • Kompozit adrenal medüller tümör: Olgu sunumu, 2018
  • FICE in Predicting Colorectal Flat Lesion Histology, 2017
  • A New Technique of Radiofrequency-assisted Ultrasound-guided Needle-localized Laparoscopic Resection of Disappearing Colorectal Liver Metastases, 2017
  • Intraoperative workload in robotic surgery assessed by wearable motion tracking sensors and questionnaires, 2016
  • FICE vs Narrow Band Imaging for In Vivo Histologic Diagnosis of Polyps, 2016
  • Laparoscopic Resection and Intracorporeal Anastomosis of a Perforated Small Bowel Caused By Fish Bone Ingestion, 2016
  • A comparison of perioperative outcomes in elderly patients with malignant liver tumors undergoing laparoscopic liver resection versus radiofrequency ablation, 2016
  • The feasibility of indocyanine green fluorescence imaging for identifying and assessing the perfusion of parathyroid glands during total thyroidectomy, 2016
  • Safety and Efficacy of a New Bipolar Energy Device for Parenchymal Dissection in Laparoscopic Liver Resection, 2016
  • Oncologic results of laparoscopic liver resection for malignant liver tumors, 2015