Mustafa Atabey
Specialty: Surgeon, Bariatric surgeon
Experience: 17 years
Clinic: Medical Park Hospitals Network
Admission fee: To be clarified
About doctor Mustafa Atabey
Mustafa Atabey is a surgeon in Turkey with extensive experience. Over the years of practice, he has performed a large number of surgical operations for the treatment of reflux esophagitis, the removal of cancerous tumors, and the correction of hernias. He is fluent in the methods of laparoscopic and robotic surgery (he completed an internship at the Cleveland Clinic).
Dr. Mustafa Atabey has achieved particular success in the field of bariatric surgery. Excess weight is not only an aesthetic problem. Obesity is associated with the development of such serious diseases as hypertension, diabetes, atherosclerosis, severe sleep apnea. Bariatric interventions (surgery to reduce the stomach) help to lose weight in patients who cannot manage severe obesity with standard methods such as diet and exercise.
Mustafa Atabey is one of the most famous bariatric surgeons in Turkey. He specializes in the most effective weight loss and metabolic normalization surgeries such as sleeve gastrectomy, gastro-intestinal bypass, and bilobed transitional separation.
Professional experience
- 2007 – Yozgat Yerköy State Hospital;
- 2008 – Cumhuriyet University, Department of General Surgery;
- 2013 – Ara State Hospital, Dogubayazit;
- 2015 – Cumhuriyet University, Department of General Surgery;
- 2015 – Cleveland Clinic, USA;
- 2018 – Medicana Hospital, Sivas;
- 2019 – Faculty of Medicine, Biruni University;
- 2019 – Medican Bahçelievler Hospital, Istanbul.
Doctor’s specialty
The main areas of clinical practice and scientific activity of Dr. Mustaf Atabey are:
- laparoscopic surgery for stomach cancer;
- laparoscopic colorectal surgery (cancer and benign diseases);
- laparoscopic diaphragm surgery and antireflux surgery;
- laparoscopic bariatric and metabolic surgery (sleeve resection of the stomach, gastrointestinal bypass, transit bilobed separation);
- laparoscopic surgery of the gallbladder and common bile duct;
- laparoscopic surgery of abdominal hernia (inguinal, umbilical and ventral);
- laparoscopic splenectomy;
- laparoscopic surgery of the pancreas.
Dr. Atabey has the following medical certificates:
- certificate in laparoscopic bariatric surgery;
- certificate in robotic surgery;
- certificate in problem-based learning;
- certificate in upper and lower gastroenterological endoscopy;
- certificate in resuscitation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Doctor’s education
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2007
Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, medical education;
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2013
Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, specialization in general surgery.
Membership in medical associations
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Turkish Surgical Association;
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International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders;
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Turkish Association for the Study of Obesity (TASO);
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Turkish Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery;
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Turkish National Society of Endoscopic Laparoscopic Surgery;
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Association of Endoscopic Laparoscopic Surgery;
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Turkish Association of HPB Surgery;
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Istanbul Association of Surgery.
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