OUR DOCTORS

Prof. Nahit Çakar, M.D.

Head of Department

Professor Çakar was Clinical Associate at the Reanimation Unit of Milano University, Italy, Intensive Care Unit of Free University of Brussels, Erasme Hospital, Belgium and Pediatric Surgery Intensive Care Unit of Sophia Kinder Ziekenhuis Hospital, the Netherlands.
Conducted experimental studies on the use of assistive techniques (prone, recruitment) in addition to the artificial respiration in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
Member of Turkish Society of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Turkish Society of Intensive Care and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
Editor of Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimation and Turkish Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, and also works as a critic in many scientific publications.
Received TARK 2007 Clinical Research Award (oral presentation)

Principal fields of clinical interest: 
- Artificial respiration,
- ARDS,
- Sepsis,
- Hemofiltration,
- Nutrition in the critically ill patient,
- Infections in the Intensive Care Unit.

Education	Institution	Year
Intensive Care Fellowship Certificate	Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, School of Medicine, Istanbul University	2012
Anesthesiology and Reanimation Residency	Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, School of Medicine, Istanbul University	1987 - 1992
Medical Education	Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, Istanbul University	1981 - 1987

Title	Institution	Year
Professor	American Hospital	2018 - to date
Professor	Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Acıbadem School of Medicine, Acıbadem University	2015 - 2018
Professor	Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, School of Medicine, Istanbul University	2002 - 2015
Research Fellow	Pulmonary and Critical Care, Regions Hospital, Minnesota University	1998 - 1999
Assoc. Prof.	Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, School of Medicine, Istanbul University	1997 - 2002
Attending Physician	Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, School of Medicine, Istanbul University	1992 - 1997