<p>Seda Türkoğlu Babakurban, MD, PhD, is full Associate Professor in the Departmet of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of Baskent University of Medical Faculty, Turkey. She is also an academic member of the Department of Medical Genetics of Baskent University of Medical Faculty, Turkey. She received her MD degree at the University of Hacettepe, Turkey in 2003 and completed her residency programme in OHNS Department of Baskent University Medical Faculty in 2009. She became Professor in 2023. She received her PhD degree in Medical Biology in 2018. Her clinical and research activities are especially focused on head and oncology and tumor biology. She is an active member of Turkish Head and Neck Society and European Head and Neck Society. She authored or co-authored in 50 international/national journal papers.</p>

<p>I am interested in Head and Neck Surgery, Sialendoscopy and Thyroid and Salivary Gland Disease.</p> <p>I am Professor of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. I received my medical degree from Gulhane Military Medical Faculty in Ankara and completed my residency at Gulhane Military Medical Academy Haydarpasa Training Hospital in Istanbul. I joined the faculty in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Gulhane Military Medical Academy Haydarpasa Training Hospital, Istanbul, I received Professor degree at 2020. Currently, I am Professor of the Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Division of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery at Acibadem Kadıkoy Hospital, Istanbul since 2026.</p> <p>Between 2015-2016, I did my Clinical & Research fellowship on Head and Neck Cancer and Surgery at Medical University of South Carolina, Head & Neck Tumor Center at Charleston, USA for one year. I also worked as an Observer Physician on Head and Neck Cancer and Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Division, Pittsburgh, USA for two months in 2014. I also trained as an Observer Physician on Ear Surgery at House Ear Clinic, Visiting Physicians Program Los Angeles, California, USA in 2007.</p> <p>Since completion of my fellowship, I frequently practice to patients with tumors of the head and neck region, including skull base, thyroid, and salivary gland and also salivary gland disorders and endoscopy (sialendoscopy). My goal for patient care include a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to each patient to provide the best cure, quality of life, and cosmesis.</p> <p>For research point of view, I am in interested in moleculer cancer pathways and its translational research on Head and Neck cancers and I did my PhD on Moleculer Oncology, graduated in 2024 at Medical Health University in Istanbul.</p> <p>I am member of Turkish Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Society, Turkish Head and Neck Cancer Society, European Head and Neck Cancer Society and member and board-member of Head and Neck Surgery Society of Turkey.</p>