Ataç Baykal

He completed his secondary education at Ankara Atatürk Anatolian High School. He graduated in 1988 from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, which he entered ranking 43rd in Türkiye in the ÖSS science score. He completed his specialty training in 1993 in the Department of General Surgery of Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, which he began in the same year. He became an associate professor in 2001 and a professor in 2008.

Between 1993 and 1995, he undertook subspecialty training in organ transplantation at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington DC and the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York in the USA.

In 2002-2003, he undertook subspecialty training in breast diseases and breast cancer at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, in the USA.

He received the 2001 Incentive Award of Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. He holds ECFMG and FLEX certificates. He has been awarded TÜBİTAK, Fulbright and Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation scholarships.

His areas of interest include the surgical treatment of breast cancer, particularly oncoplastic surgical methods and surgical treatment in metastatic breast cancer, sentinel lymph node biopsy, risk analysis in breast diseases, and alternative treatment methods in breast cancer.

1. Efficiency of Ultrasound and Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in Preoperative Assessment of Axillary Lymph Node Metastases in Breast CancerOz A., DEMİRKAZIK F., GÜLSÜN AKPINAR M., Soygur I., BAYKAL A., ÖNDER S. Ç., et al.JOURNAL OF BREAST CANCER, cilt.15, sa.2, ss.211-217, 2012 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2. Interleukin-10 gene transfer: Prevention of multiple organ injury in a murine cecal ligation and puncture model of sepsisKABAY B., Kocaefe C., Baykal A., OEZDEN H., BAYCU C., ONER Z., et al.WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY, cilt.31, sa.1, ss.105-115, 2007 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
3. Liposome-mediated intraperitoneal interleukin 10 gene transfer increases survival in cecal ligation and puncture model of sepsisKabay B., Kocaefe Y. C., Baykal A., Ozguc M., SAYEK I.SHOCK, cilt.26, sa.1, ss.37-40, 2006 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)