Serdar Nasır

Serdar Nazif Nasır is a Turkish plastic surgeon and an associate professor at the Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Ankara University in 1996 and completed specialist training in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery at Hacettepe University from 1996 to 2002. After seven years at Süleyman Demirel University in Isparta he returned to Hacettepe in 2009, having undertaken further training in composite tissue transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio from 2006 to 2008. His areas of practice include breast reconstruction, hand surgery, reconstruction of tissue defects, facial muscle reconstruction for facial nerve paralysis, and facial and body aesthetics. On 24 February 2012 he led the team that performed Turkey's second full face transplant at Hacettepe University Hospital, while a multiple-limb transplant on a second patient was carried out in another operating room; that patient died on 27 February 2012 after the transplanted limbs were amputated because of immune dysregulation.