Gazi Yaşargil

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Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil (born July 6, 1925 in Lice , Diyarbakır Province ) is a Turkish medical doctor and neurosurgeon. He worked with Raymond MP Donaghy at the University of Vermont on the development of micro-neurosurgery . Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumors with instruments he designed. From 1953 until his retirement in 1993 he was first a doctor, then a senior physician and later professor and chair holder of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Zurich and the University Hospital Zurich. In 1999 he was named "Man of the Century 1950–1999 in Neurosurgery" at the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He is a founding member of the Eurasian Academy.

Education and career

After visiting Ankara Ataturk Lisesi and the University of Ankara from 1931 to 1943, Yaşargil went to Germany and studied medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in 1944/1945 . In May 1945, he continued his studies at the University of Basel continued and in 1950 a doctorate . After stations in Interlaken and Basel, he joined the University of Zurich in 1953, where he worked until 1993, with a two-year break (1965–1967) at the University of Vermont.

His skills in developing microsurgical techniques in cerebrovascular neurosurgery enabled survival of patients previously thought to be inoperable. In 1969 Yaşargil became assistant professor and in 1973 professor and chair holder of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Zurich, succeeding his sponsor Hugo Krayenbühl . For the next twenty years he was engaged in laboratory work and clinical applications of microsurgical techniques and performed 7,500 intracranial operations until he retired in 1993 . In 1994, Yaşargil accepted a position as professor of neurosurgery at the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock . There he worked in micro-neurosurgery, research and teaching. In 2014 he returned to Turkey. In Istanbul he took over the management of the Faculty of Neurosurgery at Yeditepe Üniversitesi .

Together with Harvey Cushing , Yaşargil is considered one of the most important neurosurgeons of the 20th century. He helped three generations of neurosurgeons, defined the possibilities of neurosurgery and demonstrated the possibilities of execution. In the micro-neurosurgical laboratory in Zurich he instructed 3,000 colleagues from all over the world and all medical specialties. He was a guest at several hundred national and international neurosurgical congresses, symposia and courses. Yaşargil enjoys a high reputation in medicine and is regarded as exemplary for Turkish youth.

Publications

Yaşargil published his surgical experience in 330 papers and 13 monographs. The six-volume publication "Microneurosurgery" (1984–1996, Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart-New York) is a comprehensive summary of his broad experience and an important contribution to the literature of neurosurgery.

Private

He is married to the nurse Dianne Bader-Gibson Yaşargil, who has assisted him in operations since 1973.

Others

membership

1973–1975 President of the Swiss Society for Neurosurgery

Awards

Yaşargil aneurysm clamp . These clips were developed by Gazi Yaşargil and are still used today in neurosurgery to treat aneurysms.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Eurasian Academy
  2. ^ Gazi Yaşargil at the age of eighty. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
  3. ^ Professor Gazi Yaşargil at the age of ninety. ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the University Hospital Zurich @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.usz.ch
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gazi Yaşargil'e Devlet Üstün Hizmet Madalyası takdimi töreninde yaptıkları konuşma
personal data
SURNAME Yaşargil, Gazi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yaşargil, Mahmut Gazi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish medic and neurosurgeon
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lice , Diyarbakır Province