Erkan Yildirim

Prof. Dr. Erkan Yıldırım; was born in 1968. He graduated from Eskişehir Anadolu High School in 1986. He graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Medicine in 1992. He completed his internship in Denizli in 1993.

In 1998, he completed his assistant training in Thoracic Surgery at Siyami Ersek Thoracic, Cardiovascular Surgery Center in Istanbul and Atatürk Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Center in Ankara.

Prof. Dr. Erkan Yıldırım completed his military service in the Thoracic Surgery Clinic at Gülhane Military Medical Academy in 1999.

He started working as a specialist in the Thoracic Surgery Clinic at Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital in 2000. He became the chief assistant (senior specialist) in the same hospital in 2001. As an observer thoracic surgeon, he worked at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in 2002, at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 2004, at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2008, and at Kyoto University (Japan) in November 2012.

In 2002, he successfully passed the European Qualification Examination in Thoracic Surgery at the 10th Congress of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and became a member of the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons (FETCS).

Prof. Dr. Erkan Yıldırım received the Turkish Thoracic Surgery Qualification Certificate in 2003.

In 2007, he successfully completed the scientific file stage of the “Associate Professor Examination” in Thoracic Surgery.

Between 2007 – 2008, he completed his fellowship in LUNG TRANSPLANTATION (University of Toronto, TORONTO LUNG TRANSPLANT PROGRAM / CANADA; actively participated in 85 recipient patient surgeries and nearly 100 donor organ procurement procedures, as well as 4 clinical studies (one study is entirely his project)).

In January 2009, he became the owner of the FIRST clinical overseas study published in Turkey on “Lung Transplantation” (“Techniques of lung transplantation and lung volume reduction surgeries” (Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2009 Jan 15;6(1):66–78).

He has been a reviewer for the Turkish Journal of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery (TGKDC) and the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EJCTS) since 2002.

He actively conducts four patent studies in collaboration with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boğaziçi University.

He has numerous presentations and participations in 37 international and 19 national congresses.

MEDICAL INTERESTS

    Cancer Surgery:

• Lung Cancer
• Mediastinal Masses
• Chest Wall Tumor
• Mesothelioma (Lung Membrane Cancer)
• MPE (Malignant Pleural Effusion)
• Esophageal Cancer

Benign Lung Diseases:

• Echinococcal Cyst
• Bronchiectasis
• Bleb Surgery (Blebectomy)
• Empyema Inflammatory Diseases
• Puncture Wound Injuries

Clip-assisted ETS (Sympathectomy) VATS:

• Excessive Sweating (Hyperhidrosis)
• Facial Flushing (Blushing)
• Raynaud’s Disease

Chest Wall Deformities:

• Pectus Excavatum (Funnel Chest)
  • VATS, NUSS Bar Technique
  • 3D, Implant Method
• Pectus Carinatum (Pigeon Chest)
  • Abramson Bar Technique
• Poland Syndrome
  • 3D Implant Method
  • NUSS (Closed) or Ravitch (Open) Surgery