About Us

After graduating from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 1992, Prof. Dr. Şükrü Yazar completed his residency in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery in 2001 at Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine. During residency he trained at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, and Canniesburn Hospital in Glasgow.

His experimental study on a reverse-flow musculocutaneous flap (a new flap model), developed during residency, won first prize in the experimental research category at the 2001 TPRECD research competition and was published in Annals of Plastic Surgery as a new flap model.

As a specialist, he worked as a Clinical Research Fellow for two years (2002–2004) at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan. He became an associate professor in December 2007, received the TPRECD board certificate, and earned EBOPRAS European certification in 2008. He completed Hand Surgery (2011) and Oral, Facial and Maxillofacial Surgery (2012) specialty training, and became a professor in 2013.

While continuing as a faculty member at Acıbadem University, he served as Department Chair from 2015 to 2017. On 26 October 2024 he was elected President of the Turkish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (TPRECD).