Assoc. Prof. İmam Bakır Batı, MD — Transplant Surgeon, Bursa

İmam Bakır Batı qualified in medicine at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 1999.

His first five years were not in surgery. His published record lists the Youth and Sports Provincial Directorate and sports medicine from 1999 to 2001; prison medicine at Çankırı F Type Prison from 2001 to 2002; emergency aid and rescue medicine from 2002 to 2003; and the Çankırı Provincial Health Directorate emergency health services from 2003 to 2004.

He then trained in general surgery at Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul, completing in 2009, and held general surgery posts at Sivas Gürün State Hospital from 2009 to 2010 and Malatya State Hospital from 2010 to 2012. He joined Acıbadem Healthcare Services in 2012 and has been there since.

We set that out in full rather than beginning at 2009, which is how a marketing profile would present it. A career that starts in general and emergency practice and moves into surgery later is entirely normal in Turkish medicine, and there is nothing about it that needs smoothing over. Editing those years out would make the record look tidier and would be a small lie about a real person's life.

It also means something practical: his fourteen years at one group, from 2012, are the part of this record that describes his transplant practice.

His stated subspecialty is pancreatic, liver and biliary tract disease, and he is listed in the liver transplant centre at Acıbadem Bursa. His published clinical focus is liver transplantation, liver cancer, cirrhosis, metabolic liver disease, pancreatic disease and biliary tract disease.

That list describes a liver practice rather than a general transplant one, and the components fit together. Cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma are the two commonest routes to a liver transplant. Metabolic liver disease is a smaller but distinct group, and it includes the conditions where transplantation is performed in younger patients. A surgeon whose practice covers all of these is managing the disease across its course rather than only performing the operation at the end of it.

He is based in Bursa rather than Istanbul, which is worth noting for planning. Bursa is a city of its own roughly two hours from Istanbul by road and ferry; if you are considering this centre, treat the travel, accommodation and follow-up logistics as Bursa's rather than Istanbul's.

Transplant volumes and outcomes. Neither he nor Acıbadem publishes them. Ask the centre for the number of liver transplants performed last year and its one-year graft survival.

Society memberships. His profile leaves this section blank, so this page claims none.

Registration number. Not published, as is standard for Turkish hospital listings.

Hospital details for Acıbadem Bursa. We were not able to find a published bed count, theatre count or accreditation status for that specific hospital, which is why its own page on this site says so. Ask the group directly.

Languages beyond Turkish and English. None listed, so none claimed.

A name on a hospital's website is not a commitment that he will perform your operation. Ask the centre to confirm in writing who will operate.