Ömer Özkan

Ömer Özkan is a Turkish plastic and reconstructive surgeon born on 31 December 1971. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Hacettepe University in 1995 and completed his specialist training in plastic and reconstructive surgery there in 2001, followed by research fellowships in Tokyo, Kaohsiung and Munich on perforator flap surgery, supermicrosurgery and hand surgery. An associate professor at Akdeniz University in Antalya from 2006, he led the team that carried out Turkey's first full face transplant in January 2012 together with a multiple limb transplant on the same day. His team also performed a double arm transplant in 2010 and a uterus transplant from a deceased donor in 2011, which the article describes as a world first. His scientific field covers aesthetic surgery of the face and body, breast reconstruction, tissue engineering and facial nerve reconstruction.