Prof. Ilker Sengul
He is a Professor, Division of Endocrine Surgery, Department of General surgery, Giresun University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey. He graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine (Medicine in English), Ankara, Turkey in 2000. Afterward, he graduated from the Department of General Surgery, Ministry of Health-Ankara Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey in 2006. He is the Founder Chair of the Department of Surgical Sciences and Department of General Surgery, Ministry of Health-Golbası Hasvak State Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, 2006. He was at the Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Ministry of Health-Republic of Turkey High Specialization Hospital, Ankara, Turkey in 2006. He is the Founder Chair of the Division of Endocrine Surgery and Department of General Surgery and also the Founder Vice Dean of Giresun University Faculty of Medicine, Giresun, Turkey since 2009. He worked with Prof. Hubert Vermeersch, MD, Head and Neck, Otorhinolaryngology, and Plastic, Esthetic&Reconstructive Surgeon who performed the first face transplantation in Belgium, at the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Faculteit Geneeskunde, Universitair ZiekenhuisGhent, BE9000 Ghent, and with Dr. Tom Vauterine at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology/ENT, AZ Sint-Jan Hospital AV, BE8000 Brugge, Belgium. Afterward, he studied with Prof. Jean François Henry, MD, the Past President of ESES, at the Department of Endocrine Surgery, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Marseille, Hôpitaux De Marseille-Hôpitaux De La Timone, FR13385 Marseille, France in 2008. He is an active member of the important national and international societies of Endocrine Surgery, such as ETA, ESES, BAETS, ASGBI, INMSG, ESSR, and EAES, and has also been interested in lecturership. He was at the Department of Surgery, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES13071 Albacete, Spain for teaching mobility regarding Endocrine Surgery: thyroid, both theoretically and practically with performing and explaining thyroidectomy in 2015. Recently, he was at the Department of General Surgery, Lékarská Fakulta, Ostravska Univerzita V Ostrave, CZ70300 Ostrava, Czech Republic as an invited Visiting Professor by Prof. Anton Pelikán, DrSc and Prof. Petr Vávra, DrSc in 2019. He is the Section Editor (Surgical Oncology) of CLINICS, Review Editor of Frontiers (Front Surg and Front Oncol), Editor of Sanamed, Serbia, and Editor-in-Chief of Asian J Res Rep Endocrinol. In addition, he serves as an editorial board member, advisory board member, and reviewer in many scientific medical journals. He has performed US-guided-FNA and other interventional techniques, such as US-g-FNA-Tg, US-g-FNA-Calcitonin, US-g-FNA-PTH and also performs primarily thyroid and neck, central, lateral, and posterior cervical lymph nodes and parotid US, Doppler US, and Elastography by himself since 2002.