Sezai Y?lmaz

Biography

Prof Dr Sezai Yilmaz was born on September 28, 1962 in Arguvan district of Malatya.Following his specialization in General Surgery and Gastrointestinal Surgery, he received training in liver transplantation since 1998. In 2002, he started a deceased donor liver transplant program in Malatya İnönü University School of Medicine Turgut Özal Medical Center. Due to a lack of deceased donor donation in Turkey, he has started the live donor liver transplant program at the same center in 2005. In Turkey and Europe since 2008 Inonu University Liver Transplantation Institute is center performing most liver transplants. He founded the Liver Transplantation Institute in 2011 and is still the director of this institution. Annually, 300 liver transplantations are performed in the institute and more than 4000 liver transplantations have been performed up to now. More than % 90 of these transplantations are live donor liver transplantations. In June 2019, he and his team performed 5 simultaneous LDLTs as reherseal for LPE. He started biggest multiway liver pair exchange program, including 4-way, 5-way, 6-way, and 7-way. Professor Yilmaz has 350 scientific articles published in SCI-INDEX journals and has an H index of 25.