Faculty of Medicine

Academic Members

M. Alper KARALÖK

M. Alper Karalök,  Assoc. Prof.

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I was born in 1981. I completed my secondary education at Adıyaman Anatolian High School. After graduating from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 2004, I started to specialize in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Akdeniz University Medical Faculty Hospital. After I became a specialist in 2011, I started my gynecological oncology surgery specialization at Etlik Zübeyde Hanım Gynecology Training and Research Hospital. In 2014, I finished my gynecological oncology surgery subspecialty training and worked as a gynecological oncology surgery specialist in my hospital. During my tenure, I focused especially on minimally invasive surgeries. In 2018, I was an observer physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Gynecological Oncology. I have observed numerous robotic gynecological and gynecological oncological operations. I became Associate Professor in 2018. In Etlik Zübeyde Hanım Gynecology Training and Research Hospital, where I worked as a specialist, I was involved in many operations on difficult gynecological operations, endometriosis surgery, and urogynecological operations, apart from gynecological oncological operations. I have been working at Liv Hospital Ulus Hospital since 2019. My special interests are laparoscopic surgery in gynecology, laparoscopic surgery in gynecological cancers, preinvasive cervical lesions, ovarian cancer surgery, rare ovarian malignancies, sentinel lymph node application in endometrial cancer, and urogynecology. I have written more than 50 articles published in national and international journals. I am a father of two children.

Research Areas: Laparoscopic surgery in gynecology, Rare ovarian malegnancies, Sentinel lymph node application in endometrial cancer, Urogynecology, robotic surgery