Prof. Dr. Ömer Faruk Çalım graduated from Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, and completed his residency training in Otorhinolaryngology at Bezmialem Vakıf University, where he also achieved the Associate Professor. He was later appointed as Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at Istanbul Medipol University, where he has served as the Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology since 2025.

He is a board member of the Association of Istanbul Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery Specialists. His interests include pediatric otolaryngology, pediatric airway disorders, sialorrhea, and swallowing disorders.

Prof. Dr. Çalım is a board member of Doctors Worldwide Türkiye (Yeryüzü Doktorları Derneği), after previously serving as a volunteer supporting humanitarian healthcare and medical education projects. He is married and the father of three sons.

I was born in 1982, in, Zonguldak , Turkey. I have graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine (Ankara, TURKEY) in 2006. I have completed my Otorhinolaryngology residency in Gazi University Faculty of Medicine (Ankara, TURKEY) in 2011. I am still working as a clinician and teaching staff in Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Department. My special area of interest and expertise is head and neck surgery. During my residency and after getting ORL expertise, I have visited Netherlands Cancer Institutue (3 months) and Pitssburgh University Faculty of Medicine Head and Neck Surgery Departments, respectively, for this purposes. I have ongoing studies and have many published manuscripts and papers on Otorhinolaryngology and especially on Head and Neck surgery. My special interests for head and neck surgery are; parotidectomy and other salivary gland cancers surgery, transoral laser surgery for larynx carcinoma, oral cavity cancer surgery, total laryngectomy and voice rehabilitation (provax), neck dissection, transoral robotic surgery, thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy, head and neck reconstruction with local flaps, parapahryngeal space surgery, glomus caroticum surgery, maxillectomy and other nasal and paranazal sinus surgery including transnasal endoscopic approach, congentinal neck lump surgery (branchial and TGD cyts), head and neck sarcoma surgery, neck schawannoma surgery.