Assoc. Prof. Toygar Toydemir, MD
General Surgeon
Toygar TOYDEMİR, MD was born in 1976. He graduated from Gaziantep Science High School in 1994 and started his medical education at Ege University, Faculty of Medicine in the same year. After completing his six-year medical education, he was assigned to Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital where he was going to receive his General Surgery Specialization between 2001 and 2006. After completing his compulsory service in Erzurum Palandoken State Hospital, he completed his military service in Adana Military Hospital where he also undertook the duty of clinical chief between 2008 and 2009. Toygar Toydemir, MD is married and father of two children. He is at advanced level in English and at intermediate level in Italian.
Toydemir, MD, who has been interested in laparoscopic surgery since the first years of his assistantship, has worked with many eminent names at home and abroad, and received an advanced laparoscopic surgery training. Between 2009-2011, he worked with Prof. Mehmet Ali Yerdel, MD, and assessed hundreds of patients suffering from reflux and performed hundreds of reflux surgeries. In 2010, he accomplished the written and oral stages of the competency (Board) test held by the Turkish Surgical Association and became entitled to receive the certificate of competency. Between 2011 and 2013, he worked with Prof. Koray Tekin, MD, one of the pioneers of laparoscopic bariatric surgery in our country, on bariatric surgery and they performed more than 800 bariatric surgeries together. In 2013, he worked with Mitchell Roslin, MD, a global expert in bariatric surgery, on revisional bariatric surgery at New York Lenox Hill Hospital and had the opportunity to closely follow innovations in the field of bariatric surgery in the United States. He accomplished the file review and oral examination stages of the associate professorship exam organized by the council of higher education and received the title of General Surgery Associate. Toydemir, MD, who gained too much experience in the reflux and bariatric surgery in recent years, continues his works in this regard.
