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Thoracic Surgery

Prof. Dr. Melih Kaptanoğlu

Hospital
İzmir Can Hastanesi
Areas of Expertise
Diagnosis, Staging and Surgical Treatment of Lung Cancer · Pediatric Thoracic Surgery · Thoracic Trauma · Treatment and Prevention of Pleural Effusions · Tracheobronchial Foreign Bodies · Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy
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Prof. Dr. Melih Kaptanoğlu

Experience

  • Assistant Professor: Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sivas, 1993- 2002.
  • Associate Professor: Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sivas, 2002- 2007.
  • Professor: Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sivas, 2007- 2017.
  • Professor: Medicalpark İzmir Hastanesi, Thoracic Surgery, İzmir, 2017- 2020.
  • Professor: İEU Medicalpark İzmir Hastanesi, Thoracic Surgery, İzmir, 2020- 2022.
  • Professor: İzmir Özel Can Hastanesi, Thoracic Surgery, İzmir, 2023-Present.

Education

  • Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara 1986
  • Gazi University, Faculty of Medicine, Thoracic Surgery, Ankara 1993
  • Specialization Thesis: The Role of Mediastinoscopy in Lung Diseases.

Areas of Interest

  • Diagnosis, Staging and Surgical Treatment of Lung Cancer
  • Pediatric Thoracic Surgery
  • Thoracic Trauma
  • Treatment and Prevention of Pleural Effusions
  • Tracheobronchial Foreign Bodies
  • Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy

Seminars and Congresses

  • 1- 3rd National Congress of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 25- 30 September 1994, Kuşadası, Aydın.
  • 2- "20th Anniversary Lung Days" 2- 4 November 1995, Bursa.
  • 3- Turkish Thoracic Society First Spring Meeting and "Video-Thoracoscopy" Course, 9-12 April 1995, Antalya.
  • 4- "Problems in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Cancer" (Panelist). Turkish Thoracic Society Erzurum Branch, 6 January 1996.
  • 5- 8th National Vascular Surgery Congress, 20-23 April 1996, İzmir.
  • 6- Turkish Thoracic Society First Annual Congress, 6- 11 May 1996, Nevşehir.
  • 7- "Operative Practices in Thoracic Surgery" Course organized by the Turkish Thoracic Society Thoracic Surgery Working Group, 4-8 November 1996, Ankara.
  • 8- Turkish Thoracic Society Second Spring Meeting, 9-13 April 1997, İzmir.
  • 9- "History of Emphysema Surgery" (Panelist) at the "Volume Reduction Surgery" Course held at the Turkish Thoracic Society Second Spring Meeting, 9-13 April 1997, İzmir.
  • 10- "Volume Reduction Surgery" Course held at the Turkish Thoracic Society Second Spring Meeting, 9-13 April 1997, İzmir.
  • 10- 9th National Vascular Surgery Congress, 23-26 April 1998, Antalya.
  • 11- Turkish Thoracic Society Second Annual Congress, 6-10 May 1998, Antalya.
  • 12- 2nd. International Congress of Thorax Surgery, June 24-26, 1998 Bologna, Italy.
  • 13- Turkish Thoracic Society Third Spring Meeting, 10-14 April 1999, İstanbul.
  • 14- Turkish Thoracic Society Third Spring Meeting, Course on Invasive Mediastinal Staging Methods in Lung Cancer, 10-14 April 1999, İstanbul.
  • 15- Turkish Respiratory Society 25th National Congress, 5- 9 June 1999, İstanbul.
  • 16- Turkish Respiratory Society 25th National Congress, "Special Bronchoscopic Interventions" Course, 5 June 1999, İstanbul.
  • 17- Turkish Respiratory Society 25th National Congress, "Interventional Methods in the Diagnosis of Lung Diseases" Course, 6 June 1999, İstanbul.
  • 18- 7th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, 21-23 October 1999, Nancy- France.
  • 19- Turkish Thoracic Society National Lung Health Congress, 9- 13 April 2000, Antalya.
  • 20- Turkish Thoracic Society National Lung Health Congress, "Postoperative Complications in Lung Surgery" Course, 9 April 2000, Antalya.
  • 21- Turkish Thoracic Society National Lung Health Congress, "Experimental Animal Studies in Respiratory Diseases" Course, 10 April 2000, Antalya.
  • 22- 1st. General Thoracic Surgery Course, 6-8 May 2000, Bursa.
  • 23.10TH World Congress of the International Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, 13- 16 Agust 2000, Vancouver, Canada.
  • 24. Joint Congress of Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, 6- 9 November 2000, Kemer, Antalya.
  • 25. Selçuk University Faculty of Medicine Thorax Days, 28- 29 April 2001, Konya.
  • 26. Turkish Thoracic Society 4th Annual Congress, "Recent Advances in Thoracic Radiology" Course, 30 May- 2 June 2001, İzmir.
  • 27. Turkish Thoracic Society 4th Annual Congress, 30 May- 2 June 2001, İzmir.
  • 28. Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine, "Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Surgery" (Panelist), 20 June 2001, Sivas.
  • 29. 1st Dicle National Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Days, 19- 23 October 2001, Diyarbakır.
  • 30. Turkish Society of Thoracic Surgery and Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Department, Applied Surgical "Mediastinoscopy" Course, 29- 30 March 2002, Ankara.
  • 31. Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine, "Training of Trainers" Course, 8- 12 April 2002, Sivas.
  • 32. Turkish Thoracic Society 5th Annual Congress, "Benign Lesions of the Mediastinum" (Panelist) at the "Mediastinal Surgery" Course, 24- 27 April 2002, Belek, Antalya.
  • 33. Turkish Thoracic Society 5th Annual Congress, 24- 27 April 2002, Belek, Antalya.
  • 34. Ege University Faculty of Medicine Department of Medical Education, "Clinical Examinations" Course, 15- 17 May 2002, İzmir.
  • 35. Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Department of Medical Education and Informatics, "Professional Skills Training Meeting", 21-22 June 2002, Ankara.
  • 36. 23rd National Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Congress, Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis Control, 3-5 April 2003, Malatya.
  • 37. Turkish Thoracic Society 6th Annual Congress, 23- 26 April 2003, Belek, Antalya.
  • 38. Turkish Society of Thoracic Surgery, Course on Surgical Treatment of Pectus Deformities, 22-23 May 2003, Ankara.
  • 39. 2nd Turkish Thoracic Surgery Congress, 17-20 September 2003, Konya.
  • 40. 2nd Turkish Thoracic Surgery Congress, "Indications for Mediastinoscopy" (Panelist) at the "Mediastinoscopy and Mediastinotomy" Panel, 17-20 September 2003, Konya.
  • 41. Turkish Thoracic Society 7th Annual Congress, 28 April- 1 May 2004, Belek, Antalya.
  • 42. Turkish Thoracic Society 7th Annual Congress, "Congenital Diaphragmatic Diseases" (Panelist) at the "Diaphragmatic Diseases and Surgery" Panel, 28 April- 1 May 2004, Belek, Antalya.
  • 43. Turkish Thoracic Society, Ministry of Health and General Directorate of Mother and Child Health, "Surgical consequences of non-compliance with diagnosis and treatment principles" (Panelist) at the "Pneumonia Death Prevention Week" Panel, 24 September 2004, Sivas.
  • 44. 5th Congress of Balkan Union Of Oncology (BUON), October 14-17, 2004 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
  • 45. Ministry of Health, General Directorate of Primary Health Care, "National Tobacco Control Program Intersectoral Working Meeting" 23-24 December 2004, Ankara.
  • 46. 3rd Turkish Thoracic Surgery Congress, 1-3 September 2005, Gaziantep.
  • 47. 3rd Turkish Thoracic Surgery Congress, "Tracheobronchial and Esophageal Foreign Bodies" (Panelist) at the "Pediatric Thoracic Surgery" Panel, 1-3 September 2005, Gaziantep.
  • 48. 14th National Parasitology Congress, "Hydatid Cyst Cases in Thoracic Surgery and Problems Encountered" (Panelist) at the "Current Clinical Studies and Vital Problems in Hydatid Cyst" panel, 18-25 September 2005, İzmir.
  • 49. Turkish Lung Cancer Society. Pacta Conventa; Consensus Symposium on Staging and Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, 18-20 May 2006, Antakya.
  • 50. 2nd General Thoracic Surgery Course, 15-17 June 2006, Bursa.
  • 51. 4th Turkish Thoracic Surgery Congress, 17-20 May 2007, Antalya.
  • 52. Pectus Excavatum (Nuss Technique) Course, 19-20 June, İstanbul.
  • 53. Turkish Thoracic Society 11th Annual Congress, 23- 27 April 2008, Belek, Antalya.
  • 54. Turkish Thoracic Society 11th Annual Congress, "The role of early surgical treatment in loculated parapneumonic effusion and empyema" (Speaker) at the "Opposing Views" session, 23- 27 April 2008, Belek, Antalya.
  • 55. Cumhuriyet University. Laboratory Animal Use Certificate, 02-18 June 2008, Sivas.
  • 56. Nuss Procedure Workshop, 27- 28 June 2008, İzmir.
  • 57. Pediatric Thoracic Surgery Symposium, 13-14 November 2008, Kayseri.
  • 58. Pediatric Thoracic Surgery Symposium, "Bronchopulmonary Dysplasias" (Speaker), 3-14 November 2008, Kayseri.
  • 59. Turkish Thoracic Society 12th Annual Congress, 8- 12 April 2009, Kemer, Antalya.
  • 60. 5th Turkish Thoracic Surgery Congress, 14- 17 May 2009, Kuşadası, Aydın.
  • 61. "Infections" (Panelist) at the "Postoperative Complications" panel of the 5th Turkish Thoracic Surgery Congress, 14- 17 May 2009, Kuşadası, Aydın.
  • 62. Symposium on Innovations in Tracheal Surgery, 30- 31 October 2009, Trabzon.
  • 63. Symposium on Innovations in Tracheal Surgery, "Non-Surgical Approaches in Tracheal Pathologies" (Speaker), 30- 31 October 2009, Trabzon.
  • 64. Endoscopic Thoracic Surgery Symposium, 11- 12 June 2010, Sivas.
  • 65. 1st Course on Experimental Animal Models in Thoracic Surgery, 26- 28 November 2010, Kırıkkale.
  • 66. 5th National Lung Cancer Congress, 23- 26 February 2012, İstanbul.
  • 67. 5th National Lung Cancer Congress. Course on Intensive Care, Palliative and Supportive Therapies in Lung Cancer, 23 February 2012, İstanbul.
  • 68. National Lung Cancer Congress, Course on Intensive Care, Palliative and Supportive Therapies in Lung Cancer, "Palliative Surgery" (Speaker), 23 February 2012, İstanbul.
  • 69. National Thoracic Malignancies Congress. Thoracic Surgery Techno Course, 10 May 2012, Antalya.
  • 70. National Thoracic Malignancies Congress. 10- 13 May 2012, Antalya.
  • 71. "1st Cumhuriyet University Oncology Days" Symposium. 14- 15 September 2012, Sivas.
  • 72. Lung Cancer Symposium. 21 September 2012, Mersin. In Memory of Ersin Arslan.
  • 73. Sivas- Erzincan Chamber of Medicine Academic Development Course. "Topic Selection in Scientific Article Writing" (Speaker), 5 March 2013, Sivas.
  • 74. "Surgical Skills Olympics I" competition at the 7th Turkish Thoracic Surgery Congress (Organizer) 25- 28 April 2013, Antalya.
  • 75. "Communication Skills Course", 16- 18 September 2013, Sivas.
  • 76. Problem-Based Learning Course, 18- 19 March 2014, Sivas.
  • 77. 6th National Lung Cancer Congress, 8- 11 May 2014, Antalya.
  • 78. "Simulated Patient Training" Course, 23- 24 March 2015, Sivas.
  • 79. 8th National Thoracic Surgery Congress. 23- 26 April 2015, Antalya.
  • 80. "Surgical Skills Olympics II" competition at the 8th National Thoracic Surgery Congress (Organizer) 23- 26 April 2015, Antalya.
  • 81. Lung Health and Intensive Care Society (ASYOD), Basic and Advanced Bronchoscopy Course, 21 November 2015, Sivas.
  • 82. "Surgical Skills Olympics II" competition at the 9th Turkish Thoracic Surgery Congress (Organizer) 4- 7 May 2017, Antalya.
  • 83. Turkish Lung Cancer Society, Consensus Symposium on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Cancer. 19- 20 May 2017, İzmir.
  • 84. Asian Thoracoscopic Surgery Education Program 4th Symposium. 1-2 December 2017, İstanbul, Turkey.
  • 85. Joint Meeting of the Turkish Society of Thoracic Surgery Gaziantep Branch and Lung Cancer Working Group. Lung Cancer Symposium "What We Couldn't Say". 21-22 April 2018, Gaziantep.
  • 86. Turkish Society of Hypertension Control, 16th National Congress of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Diseases. 26- 29 April, 2018, Muğla.
  • 87. Medicalpark İzmir Hastanesi. Symposium on Microbiota and Its Effects on Human Health. 26 September, 2018, İzmir.
  • 88. 8th National Lung Cancer Congress. 4-7 October, 2018, Muğla.
  • 89. Turkish Society of Hypertension Control, 17th National Congress of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Diseases. 26- 29 April, 2018, Muğla.
  • 90. 10th National Thoracic Surgery Congress. 25- 28 April 2019, Antalya.
  • 91. 10th National Thoracic Surgery Congress. Chair of the "Selected oral presentations on pleural malignancies" session. 25- 28 April 2019, Antalya.
  • 92. Thoracic Surgery İzmir Symposium. Medtronic Medical Education Program, Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Surgery Hospital. 18 October 2019, İzmir.
  • 93. Turkish Society of Thoracic Surgery Autumn Symposium. Little-Known Facts in Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery from the Experts. 16 November 2019, Manisa.
  • 94. İzmir Katip Çelebi University Faculty of Medicine Department of Thoracic Surgery and Pectus Association. İzmir Meeting. 16 January 2020, İzmir.
  • 95. İzmir Chamber of Medicine Teleconference. Evolutionary Medicine (Speaker). 14 October 2020, İzmir.
  • 96. Manisa Celal Bayar University Thoracic Surgery VATS Training Symposium. 27 May 2022, Manisa.
  • 97. University of Health Sciences Symposium on Current Treatment Approaches in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). 3 June 2022, İzmir.

Professional Memberships

  • Turkish Medical Association, Ankara, 1987
  • World Medical Association, France, 1988
  • International Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Japan, 1992
  • Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey, 1993
  • National Vascular Surgery Society, Ankara, 1994
  • Turkish Respiratory Society, İstanbul, 1996
  • Emergency Medicine Association, İzmir, 1997
  • European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, France, 1997
  • Thoracic Surgery Society, Ankara, 1997

Foreign Languages

  • English

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