Prof. Dr. Nejat GÜNEY

He studied and graduated from Galatasaray High School and Pertevniyal High School. After graduating from Istanbul University Çapa Faculty of Medicine, he specialized in orthopedics and traumatology at Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine. He became an associate professor in 1986 and then became a professor in 1994.

In 1987, he worked at the Royal National Orthopedic Hospital in London for 3 months with Prof. Dr., an expert in total knee replacement surgery. Dr. He studied under George Bentley. On his return to the country, he pioneered this issue by applying the prosthesis we still use today to both knees in the same session, and in later years by applying the hip prosthesis to both hips in the same session. In the following years, he worked with various specialist physicians in prosthetic surgery at the Southern California Institute in the United States, Germany, Switzerland and Karolinska Hospital in Sweden.

He has been working in the field of hip and knee joint replacement surgery for more than 40 years and has successfully performed over 4000 hip and 4500 knee replacement surgeries to date.

He has many scientific articles in the field of prosthetic surgery. In 2014, he left his teaching position at Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine and works as a private physician. He has presentations at many international and national congresses and articles in various scientific journals.