Vafi Atalay

Professor, General Surgery Specialist · General Surgery

Areas of expertise: General surgery

Education

Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, (1998-2004)

Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Istanbul (2004-2009).

Areas of expertise and interests

EBSQ

Coloproctology

Memberships of organisations

• European Society of Coloproctology (member)

• Turkish Surgical Society (member)

• Turkish Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery (member)

• International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists (member)

• Palestinian Stoma Care Association (associate member of the International Ostomy Association (IOA)); board member

• Palestinian Medical Syndicate (member)

• Jacobs Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (editorial board member)

• Journal "Medicine" (academic editor)

• Kocaeli Medical Journal (editor)

• World Journal of Gastroenterology (reviewer)

• North American Journal of Medical Sciences (reviewer)

• Journal of Pancreas (reviewer)

• Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences (reviewer)

• Marmara Medical Journal (reviewer)

• BMJ Case Reports (reviewer)

• Paediatric Oncology (editorial board member)

• Journal of Surgery and Surgical Research (editorial board member)

• Clinical Cases in Surgery (editorial board member)

• Annals of Thyroid Research (editorial board member)

• Molecular and Clinical Oncology (reviewer)

• World Journal of Emergency Medicine (reviewer)

• Clinics in Surgery (reviewer)

• Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition (reviewer)

• • Arab Journal of Gastroenterology (reviewer)

• World Journal of Surgical Oncology (reviewer)

• Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment

Teaching

• Shuhada Al Aqsa State Hospital, head of the General Surgery department, Gaza / Palestine (2010-2011)

• Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine, trainer/teacher and surgeon in the Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey (2010-2014)

• Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine, senior lecturer in the Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey (2015-2016)

• Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine, associate professor in the Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey (2016- )

• Postgraduate Education Coordination Board of the Marmara University Faculty of Medicine. Coordinator of specialty training in the Department of Surgical Sciences (2015- )

• Coordinator, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, introduction to clinical practice - first year / ICP-1 2015-2016.

• Deputy principal coordinator, Eastern Mediterranean University (Cyprus) (2016- )

• Principal coordinator of the gastrointestinal endoscopy unit of general surgery at Marmara University Pendik Teaching Hospital (2018-)

Publications: 48 national and international publications

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