Ahmet Zeki Işık, Turkey
Izmir University
Dr. Ahmet Zeki Işık was born in 1965 in Ankara. He graduated from TED Ankara College in 1982, finished Hacettepe University School of Medicine with second degree in 1988 and received his obstetrics and gynecology certification from Zekai Tahir Burak Gynecology and Obstetrics Training and Research Hospital in 1992. He had been working as a chief resident in Reproductive Endocrinology, and Infertility Department of Zekai Tahir Burak Gynecology and Obstetrics Training and Research Hospital between 1993 and 1995 and participated in clinical and laboratory applications in IVF center. He had been as a research Fellow at the Cornell University New York Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility in 1994. He had worked as a gynecologist in reproductive endocrinology and infertility unit of Sevgi hospital in 1996. He was the chairman of the first freeze-thaw and blastocyst pregnancy team of Turkey in 1998. He received the certificate of the ICSI and micromanipulation techniques in Brussel Fee University in 1997 and finished preimplantation genetic diagnosis education in 1999. He had worked as a director of IVF centers of Istanbul Alman Hospital and Ankara Bayindir Hospital between 1999 and 2002. He had received his associate professor degree in 2001. He had been director and scientific coordinator of Özel Ankara IVF Centre and Irenbe IVF centre between 2003-2009 and between 2010-2014 respectively. Professor Ahmet Zeki Işık is currently the Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Izmir University, and Clinical Director of the ART Laboratory. He pioneered the team who performed the first freeze-thaw oocyte and freeze-thaw of the same embryo pregnancy in Turkey in 2015. His research interests include reproductive endocrinology and in vitro fertilization. He has all the three certificate of Health Ministry including Clinical, Embryology and ICSI. He had been the executive board member of Turkish Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, founder of Private IVF Centers Association of Turkey. He is currently the General Secretary of Turkish Society of Reproductive Medicine. He has published more than 100 articles in local and international peer reviewed journals, 6 books written and translated and 6 book sections. His articles had received more than 250 citations. Prof. Ahmet Zeki Işık is a well-known invited speaker at national and international meetings.