Prof. Dr. Volkan Tuğcu  a Urology and Robotic Surgery Specialist

EDUCATION

He graduated from Bursa Uludag Faculty of Medicine. Made his PHD in Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan Vakif Gureba Training and Research Hospital.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

He worked as a urology Assistant in Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan Vakif Gureba Training and Research Hospital Urology Assistant (1999 - 2003), then occupied the same position in Bakırköy Dr.Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital he became an Associate Professor of Urology in Bakırköy Dr.Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital (2011 – 2017) he worked in the Health Sciences University Department of Urology as a Urology Professor in 2017. He became Head of the Department of Urology, at University of Health Sciences, in 2018, then he worked as a urology Professor at Hasan Kalyoncu University then in Memorial Bahçelievler. Currently he works in Present Liv Hospital Vadistanbul.

MEMBERSHIPS

He is a member in the European Association of Urology (EAU), Turkish Andrology Association, Turkish Endourology Society, Eurasian Urooncology Association and a Board Memberin the Turkish Urology Association.

ACHIEVEMENTS

He has many publishement and books among them Urinary System Stone Disease (Nobel Medicine Bookstore), Kidney Cancer Update (Turkish Urology Academy Publication No: 4),  Treatment of Upper Urinary System Obstruction (Campell- Walsch Urology, Tenth Edition) and Atlas of Laparoscopic and Robotic Single Site Surgery

(LESS in the Pediatric Population) as well as articles such as Category IIIB Urodynamic Findings in Patients with Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome”, Bakırköy Dr.Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital 2008, “Protective Effect of PDTC on Kidney Tissue in Rats with Diabetes Caused by Streptozocin (Experimental Study)”, Bakırköy Dr.Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital 2008 and “Protective Effect of Curcumin on Kidney Cell Damage Caused by Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy in Rats (Experimental Study)”, Bakırköy Dr.Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital 2007.

He got the AWARD of the PHYSICIAN OF THE YEAR from the Ministry of Health in 14.03.2016, he also got a CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION from Istanbul Governorship Provincial Health Directorate certificate of appreciation for outstanding effort 13.03.2007.