He graduated from Eskişehir Anatolian High School in 1981 and started his undergraduate study in Istanbul Medicine Faculty.
After graduating in 1987, he finished one-year compulsory service in Gümüşhane Köse as a practitioner and started residency in the Department of Thoracic Surgery in Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University in 1988.
[1] Moreover, he has been carrying out the duty of Head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery in the Medicine Faculty since 1993, excluding the years 2004-2007.
He has a total number of 188 publications and papers including 32 in SCI, and 98 international references.
His successor Erhan Tabakoglu was elected and confirmed as Rector of the Trakya University in July 2016.