Background
Altaca, Gulum was born on October 2, 1961 in Stanbul, Turkey.
Altaca, Gulum was born on October 2, 1961 in Stanbul, Turkey.
Doctor of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 1984.
General practitioner Balikesir (Turkey) Health and Education Center, 1984—1986. Department head, department 1st general surgery and transplantation Haydarpaa Numune Research and Teaching Hospital, Turkey, since 1999. Resident general surgery Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara, 1986—1989, chief resident department general surgery, 1989—1991.
Attending general surgeon Ankara Numune Research and Teaching Hospital, 1991—1992, Bayndr Medical Center, Ankara, 1992—1994. Clinical multiorgan transplant and hepatobiliary fellow Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, 1995—1997. Attending general surgeon Doctor Muhittin Ülker Emergency Aid and Traffic Hospital, Ankara, 1998—1998.
Department chief, department of transplantation Kartal Research and Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, 1998—1999, department head department surgery Turkey, 1999—1999, department head medicine. Head department organ transplantation and dialysis Ministry of Health of Turkey, Ankara, 1998, member of the national science committees for liver and kidney transplantations, since 2000. Representative for Turkey European Council, Health Department and Organ Transplantation Committees, Strassburg, 1998—1999.
Head department transplantation Kartal Research and Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, 1998—1999. Member of editorial board Turkish Surgical Sciences Bulletin, Ankara, since 1998. Director, department of emergency medicine Haydarpaa Numune Research and Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, since 2002.
Member of Turkish Transplantation Society, European Association for Endoscopic Surgery, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of America Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, Turkish Hepatobiliary Society, National Trauma and Emergency Surgery Society, Organ Transplantation Coordination Society, Ankara Surgical Society.