Leading Figures in Anatomy Gather at BAU

"Medical Park Anatomy Days", organized for the first time this year by Medical Park Hospitals Group with the support of the Turkish Society of Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy and hosted by BAU Faculty of Medicine, will be held at Bahçeşehir University on 25-26 December 2015.

Medical Park Anatomy Days, launched this year in collaboration with BAU Faculty of Medicine to support basic sciences, aims to encourage young medical students to conduct scientific research in anatomy through both conferences and scholarships.

Over the two days of "Medical Park Anatomy Days", the importance of anatomy education and current developments in anatomical science will be discussed. The symposium will include panels such as "The Role of Anatomy in Surgical Training" and "Robotic Surgery and Anatomy". At the "Yücel Kanpolat Lecture" on the second day, Prof. Dr. Afksendiyos Kalangos, an internationally renowned figure in cardiovascular surgery and Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, will give a lecture on "Creativity in Science". As part of Anatomy Days, 6-10 researchers selected by a scientific jury will be awarded a one-year "Research Scholarship" for their anatomy studies in the field of surgery.

The press conference to be held on the first day of the symposium will be attended by Hikmet Çavuş, Strategy and Performance Group Coordinator of Medical Park Hospitals Group; Prof. Dr. Türker Kılıç, Dean of BAU Faculty of Medicine; Prof. Dr. Ümit Şehirli, Vice President of the Turkish Society of Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy; and Prof. Dr. İbrahim Tekdemir, faculty member at the Department of Anatomy, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine.

We would be delighted to welcome members of the press to the press conference, where information will be provided on the role of anatomy in medical education in Türkiye and the cadaver shortage.
Program:

Venue: BAU Beşiktaş Campus, Office of the President Floor, Senate Hall
Date: 25 December 2015, Friday
Time: 11:30

RSVP:
BAU Faculty of Medicine – Ayşegül Aydoğan Atakan / aysegul.atakan@med.bahcesehir.edu.tr +90 216 579 81 36
Medical Park – Tuğrul Tunalıgil / tugrul.tunaligil@medicalpark.com.tr+90 530 174 26 20