After graduating Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, he completed his ophthalmology residency training in the same Institution and “Research fellowship” (1986-1987) at The New York Hospital – Weil Cornell Medical Center with  Professor Stanley Chang . During the research fellowship, he contributed to the development of low viscosity perfluorocarbon liquids for vitreoretinal surgery. He was the director of Department of Ophthalmology and “Medical & Surgical Retina- Artificial Vision & Regenerative Ophthalmology” Division at Ankara University Faculty of  Medicine. Currently he is the  director of BioRetina Eye Clinic in Ankara. He is also doing “Research and Product/Device Development Studies” at Ankara University Technopolis on stem cell and MagnoVision^TM (Patented iontophoresis and neuromodulation device in the treatment of retina / optic nerve diseases).

He was visiting professor at Harvard Medical School  ( 2011, 2013 ). He was selected as faculty member of ESASO (2012; European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology), and became director and organizer of international ESASO  modules in Türkiye in terms of simulator training, wet-lab studies, 3-D live surgery educations (2012-2015). He is pioneering on epiretinal prosthesis studies (Argus II) in end stage-retinitis pigmentosa patients, and was designated as an international surgical proctoring and mentor (2017) for Argus II implantation.

He has  more than 170 national, international scientific papers, 4 book chapters in English, OCT Angiography textbook in Turkish. He presented more than 100 lectures, conferences, chairing sessions, oral presentations in Türkiye, Europe and USA in terms of vision research, prevention of blindness and management of vitreo-retinal diseases. He received  Ayhan Sahenk Award; at Mediterranean VIII Vitreo-retinal Meeting 2019, Dubrovnic Croatia, for his outstanding dedication and services to the field of vitreo-retinal surgery, stem cells and MagnoVision researches on the retinal diseases causing  retinal degeneration and blindness.