Doctor Mete Karatay

About the Doctor

Membership

• Turkish Medical Association (2001)

• Turkish Neurosurgical Society (2008)

• Spinal and Peripheral Nerve Surgery Education Group (2013)

Experience

• General Practitioner – Bilecik Inhisar Health Center (2001–2002)

• Neurosurgeon – Ankara Training & Research Hospital (2008–2015)

• Military Service Neurosurgeon – Van Military Hospital (2009–2010)

• Asst. Prof. – Istanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University (2015–2016)

• Assoc. Prof. – Istanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University (2016–2021)

• Professor – Gaziosmanpaşa Hospital (2021–2023)

• Professor of Neurosurgery – Liv Vadistanbul Hospital (2024–Present)

Publications

• Published in international peer-reviewed journals including Turkish Neurosurgery (2007): “Intracranial foreign body”

• Turkish Neurosurgery Journal (2005): “Distal PICA aneurysm case report”

• Author of book chapter in Reçete El Kitabı (Nobel Publishing, 2014, pp. 249-260, ISBN 978-975-6266-26-7). Presented at multiple international and national neurosurgical congresses

Education

• M.D., Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine (1995-2001)

• Neurosurgery Specialisation, Ankara Training & Research Hospital (2002-2007)

• Observership, Johns Hopkins University Department of Neurosurgery (2012, Prof. Ziya Gökaslan, USA)

Certificates

• Advanced Spine Surgery Workshop

• Pediatric Neurosurgery Certification

• Deep Brain Stimulation Training

• Johns Hopkins Observership Certificate

Services

• Brain and spinal tumor surgery (adults & children)

• Pediatric neurosurgery (hydrocephalus, spina bifida, encephalocele, craniosynostosis)

• Minimally invasive spine surgery (lumbar/cervical hernias, stenosis, spondylolisthesis, fractures, kyphosis correction)

• Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, tremor

• Vagal nerve and spinal cord stimulation; baclofen pump implantation

• Aneurysm and AVM surgery.