Prof. Dr. Mehmet Zileli, Izmir
Posted in Doctors by Speciality, Izmir, Neurological Surgery and Neurologists
Office: 1421 sok No:61/5 Alsancak 35230 Izmir, Turkey
Phone: +90 232 463 77 51
Fax: +90 232 421 93 23
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Zileli is the Professor of Neurosurgery. He was the Chief of the Neurosurgery Department in Ege University, Izmir, Turkey but left the university in July 2011.
He has worked as a research fellow in Erlangen, Germany with Johannes Schramm (1987-1988). He is the first President of the Spine Section of Turkish Neurosurgical Society (1995-1999), President of the Turkish Neurosurgical Society (2006-2008), President of the World Spinal Column Society (2011-present), and President of the Middle East Spine Society (2011-present). He has been the program chairman of the World Spine IV Meeting (Istanbul, 2007), president of the 6th Black Sea Neurosurgical Congress (Istanbul, 2009), president of the 1st Middle East Spine Congress (Istanbul, 2011). He is also the chairman of the Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons which will be held in 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, and chairman of the World Spine 6 Congress which will be held in 2012, Bali, Indonesia.
Dr. Mehmet Zileli has important contributions to education and training in spine surgery in Turkey, by organizing 11 courses on spine surgery since 1997, three cadaver courses (2003, 2005, 2010). He has also been the host of the “Travelling Fellowship of Spine Society of Europe” (2002, 2003, 2004).
He is the founder of the first spine fellowship program in Turkey that served many national (33) and international (28) fellows.
He is the member of 13 national and 17 international medical societies. He is the editorial board member and/or reviewer of 23 scientific medical journal, in one of them the chief editor.
He is the author or co-author of 55 international, 73 national scientific papers, editor of 4 books, author of 13 international and 72 national book chapters. He has presented 293 papers or conferences in international meetings and 302 in national meetings.
Other than native language of Turkish, he speaks English and German in fluent level.
