Who is Dr. Murat Üstün?
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Who is Dr. Murat Üstün?
Dr. Murat Üstün was born in Istanbul in 1969. He graduated from Ege University Faculty of Medicine in 1992.
Dr. Ustun became a General Surgery Specialist in 1996. Because SSK Ankara Education and Research Hospital (where he was studying) was the rated as second place for laparoscopy in Turkey, he developed a strong
interest in this field for his entire career.
During this period, he completed HÜFAM-approved Hospital Management and Total Quality Management certificate trainings. Taking an active role in the establishment of a transplantation clinic at SSK Ankara Specialization Hospital between 1996-1999, Dr Ustun worked especially in the field of renal transplantation and laparoscopic surgery. During this time, he decided to focus on advanced laparoscopic surgical techniques and continued his post-specialty training in this direction.
Between 1999-2001, he went to SSK Zonguldak Regional Hospital where he established the first laparoscopic surgery unit of the regional hospital, enabling laparoscopic surgery to be performed for the first time in the region. He instituted modernization studies in the operating room and established sound sterilization principles.
Dr. Ustun resigned from SSK in 2001 in order to continue his studies in the private sector. He has been working in the private health sector in Istanbul since 2001. During this period, information technology became one of his most important areas of interest. He worked as the project coordinator of DrCAD medical software, which aims to provide online diagnosis support to family physicians in Ankara-based Netcad software company. He managed the endoscopy and laparoscopic surgery unit in Hayat group for about 3 years. During this period, he gained significant experience in the field of diagnostic and interventional endoscopy with over 2000 colonoscopies and around 3500 gastroscopies.
A Lifetime Dedicated to Obesity Surgery
In his private working life, besides endoscopic diagnosis and treatment methods, Dr. Ustun was directed to the field of obesity surgery. In 2004, he worked with Dr. Vincent Frering on laparoscopic bariatric surgery in Polyclinique du Beaujolais in France, where laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed for the first time in the world. Since this time, he has worked in three different centers in France. On his return, he started both endoscopic gastric balloon applications and laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgeries. After making a decision to focus on bariatric surgery, he visited and worked in different centers such as Frankfurt, Vienna, Hamburg, Athens, Madrid, and Montreal to increase his experience. He collaborated with Dr. Karl Miller, Dr. Rudolph Weiner, and Dr. Robert Ruthledge.
Dr. Murat Üstün personally established and managed many surgical and social sites, such as medicorium.com obesity and surgery portal, obezitecerrahisi.org obesity portal, and kelepcekardesligi.com stomach band support forum. Between the years 2010-2011, he served as Coordinator of Turkey’s first Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Centerthe. He still works in the private sector.
Many Firsts in Obesity Surgery
In parallel with the decrease in the use of gastric band surgeries in the world, he was among the first few surgeons to apply advanced techniques such as laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and laparoscopic gastric bypass in the country. He became one of the leading physicians in his field with his experience in this field and his complication rates at the level of world averages. Therefore, it has become a reference center for complication surgery and revision surgery.
Dr. Ustun is the first practitioner of surgeries in Turkey such as laparoscopic gastric plication (gastric plication), endoscopic gastric plication (Apollo), laparoscopic single anastomosis duodenoyleostomy (SADI-S), and laparoscopic gastric loop bipartition.. Apart from obesity and metabolism surgery, his most important professional interest is endoscopic treatment methods. He is the first practitioner of the Esophyx method in our country in the treatment of endoscopic reflux. In addition, he also applies endoscopic reflux treatment methods such as MUSE, GERD-X, and Stretta.
The First Workshop in the Private Sector in Obesity Surgery
Believing that knowledge will increase as it is being shared, Dr. Üstün, the Key Opinion Leader in the bariatric surgery field of Covidien (now Medtronic) for 6 years, has been providing bariatric and metabolic surgery training to his colleagues.
Approximately 35 surgeons received training in these nine workshops and started obesity surgery. During these trainings, many live broadcasts were also performed; one of them achieved an operation record in Turkey with a live broadcast spanning eight hours and involving two gastric tubes, one gastric bypass, and one SADI-S surgery during the broadcast period.
Believing that advanced technology will make a great contribution to surgical excellence, Dr. Üstün also performed the first use of staples with I-drive battery in gastric sleeve surgery, the first use of V-Loc suture in obesity surgery, the first sleeve gastrectomy surgery with Storz Spies laparoscopy system, and the first three-dimensional laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy surgery.
Dr. Murat Üstün continues his studies on Obesity and Obesity Surgery in London and Istanbul.
Education
ANKARA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL
General Surgery Specialization Training
1992 – 1996
Ankara / Turkey
EGE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY
Medical Doctor Training
1986 – 1992
Istanbul / Turkey
Treatments Applied
- Endoscopic gastric balloon
- Endoscopic stomach reduction (Apollo)
- Gastric sleeve surgery
- Gastric bypass surgery
- Mini gastric bypass surgery
- Diabetes Surgery
- Duodenal Switch
- Revisional Surgery
Trainings, Courses and Conferences Attended
- IBC Oxford Bariatric Congress, 2019
- IBC Oxford Bariatric Congress, 2018
- IFSO London, 2017
- BEST Brugge, 2016
- IFSO Vienna, 2015
- BEST Madrid, 2014
- IFSO Istanbul, 2013
- IFSO Hamburg, 2011
Professional Memberships
- Turkish Medical Association
- Turkish Surgical Association
- Turkish Surgical Endoscopy Association
- Turkish Obesity Surgery Association
- Endoscopic Laparoscopic Surgery Association
- IFSO (International Federation of Surgery for Obesity)
- International Bariatric Club
- High Tech Surgeons
- Turkish Anglo-Saxon Doctors Association
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