Selahattin Özmen

Selahattin Özmen is a Turkish plastic surgeon and professor of plastic surgery at the Koç University School of Medicine. He is also affiliated with the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at American Hospital in Istanbul. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Hacettepe University and completed his specialist training in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Gazi University between 1995 and 2002. He then trained at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio from 2002 to 2003, at Sahlgrenska Akademin in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2004 and in Hamburg, Germany, in 2006. On 17 March 2012 he performed Turkey's third face transplant at Gazi University Hospital in Ankara, a partial transplant reported as the first woman-to-woman face transplant in Turkey and the first in the country to include bone tissue.