Nezhat Akalan

Biography

Dr. Nezhat Akalan

What diseases of the nervous system does the doctor treat?

Professor Nejat Akalan is one of the most respected Turkish specialists in neurosurgery. His publications in the field of treatment of the central and peripheral nervous system are known throughout the world. Nezhat Akalan specializes in the treatment of congenital and acquired pathologies. In his work, Nezhat Akalan uses the most advanced diagnostic and surgical methods – intraoperative neuronavigation, the use of neuroimplants and minimally invasive stereotaxic techniques. This allows achieving positive results in the most complex clinical cases of diseases of the brain and nerves.

What education does a doctor have?

Nejat Akalan graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ankara (Turkey) in 1980. He completed his residency and doctoral studies at the Department of Neurosurgery and the Institute of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Hacettepe University of Ankara from 1980 to 1993. He worked as a research assistant at the University of Seattle (USA) in 1988-1989. Received the title of professor of medicine in 2000.

The experience of Professor Akalan

Professor Akalan has been practicing in the treatment of neurological diseases for over 30 years. During this time he worked as a freelance neurosurgeon and department head.

Does the doctor have any achievements in science?

Nezhat Akalan’s main area of ​​scientific interest is pediatric neurosurgery. Over the years, he has published more than 100 articles on the treatment of neurological pathologies, among which the most famous are:

Cavernous pathologies of the central nervous system (CNS) in children: clinical and radiological features and the results of the analysis of 36 cases.
Thalamic tumors in children.
Osteoporosis model.
Decreased heart rate variability and increased sympathetic tone after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery.
Simultaneous activity of the mechanisms of necrosis and cell survival in the hippocampus of patients with mesial temporal lobe sclerosis.
Pediatric surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy: resection based on etiology and anatomical location.
Optical glioma in children: a retrospective analysis of 101 cases.
Primitive neuroectodermal tumors of the central nervous system associated with genetic and metabolic defects.
Myelomeningocele (open spina bifida) is a surgical treatment.

In addition to scientific work, he actively collaborates with well-known Turkish medical publishing houses:

Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery
Childs Nervous System
Neurosurgery
Acta Neurochirurgia
Turkish Neurosurgery

Dr. Akalan has been teaching since 1992.

Where does the doctor work now?

Currently, Nejat Akalan is the head of the department of microsurgery at the Turkish clinic Medipol.