Gazi Yaşargil
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
- The famous poet Can Yücel and Gazi Yaşargil were best school friends at Ankara Ataturk Lisesi .
membership
1973–1975 President of the Swiss Society for Neurosurgery
Awards
- 1957 Alfred Vogt Prize of the Swiss Ophthalmological Society
- 1968 Robert Bing Prize from the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1976 Marcel Benoist Prize of the Swiss Confederation
- 1980 Neurosurgeon of the Year
- 1981 Pioneer Microsurgeon Award from the International Microsurgical Society , Sydney, Australia
- 1988 Medal of Honor from the University of Naples , Italy
- 1992 Medicine Prize of the Turkish Republic
- 1997 gold medal from the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
- 1998 Distinguished Faculty Scholar, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- 1998 Honored as "Neurosurgeon of the Century" by the Brazilian Neurosurgical Society
- 1999 Medal of Honor from the European Neurosurgeons Association
- 1999 Honored as “Man of the Century in Neurosurgery 1950–1999” by the specialist journal Neurosurgery at the annual conference of neurological surgeons
- 2000 Fedor Krause Medal from the German Society for Neurosurgery
- 2000 honorary membership in the American College of Surgeons
- 2000 Turkish State Medal for Outstanding Services
- 2000 Award from the Turkish Academy of Sciences
- 2002 International Francesco Durante Prize, Italy
- 2012–2013 founding member of the Eurasian Academy
- 2015 Tissot Medal of the Swiss Epilepsy League
Web links
- JM Tew Jr: M. Gazi Yasargil: Neurosurgery's Man of the Century. Biography. In: Neurosurgery . 45 (5), November 1999, pp. 1010-1014. (Abstract, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Eurasian Academy
- ^ Gazi Yaşargil at the age of eighty. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
- ^ 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
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Gazi Yaşargil'e Devlet Üstün Hizmet Madalyası takdimi töreninde yaptıkları konuşma
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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 |