Prof. Ersin Ülkür, MD

Prof. Ersin Ülkür, MD is a specialist in Aesthetic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery with more than 25 years in medicine. He works within the Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery unit and joined Acibadem Health Group in 2011. His clinical and academic work centers on flap-based reconstruction of the hand, foot, face and jaw, burn reconstruction, the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers, and laser skin rejuvenation.

Dr. Ülkür graduated from Gulhane Military Medical Academy Faculty of Medicine in 1993 and completed his specialty training in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at Gulhane Military Medical Academy in 2001. He then worked as a Plastic Surgery Specialist at Çorlu Military Hospital from 2001 to 2003, before serving as Assistant Professor at GATA Haydarpasa Training Hospital Plastic Surgery Clinic in Istanbul from 2003 to 2006. He was appointed Associate Professor at the same clinic in 2006 and Professor in 2012. From 2011 to 2014 he was Clinic Chief of GATA Haydarpaşa Training Hospital Plastic Surgery.

Clinical focus

Dr. Ülkür’s listed areas of expertise cover a range of reconstructive procedures. In hand and foot surgery, these include fingertip repair with the free dorsoulnar perforator flap, reconstruction of great toe tip defects with a pedicled heterodigital artery flap, graftless syndactyly repair, and definitive foot drop deformity repair using the tensor fascia latae myocutaneous flap. In the head and neck region, his work includes segmental mandibular defect reconstruction with the vascularized free fibular flap, repair of the lower eyelid and medial canthus with a nasal chondromucosal flap, and reconstruction after full-thickness cervical burns. He also treats non-melanoma skin cancers and offers laser skin rejuvenation.

His profile lists 10 publications dated between 2005 and 2013. Their subjects mirror his clinical interests: great toe tip and fingertip reconstruction, an experimental burn model examining subcutaneous mesenchymal stem cell injection, foot drop repair, free fibular flap reconstruction of the mandible, a self-inflicted full-thickness cervical burn, an 11-year retrospective analysis of skin cancers other than melanoma, nasal chondromucosal flaps for eyelid repair, laser approaches in skin rejuvenation, and graftless syndactyly treatment methods.

How Dr. Ülkür works with international patients

Dr. Ülkür speaks Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who need them. The Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, arranges appointments and organizes the hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and symptoms, a review of existing imaging and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the available options, including whether surgery is appropriate in the individual case. Video consultation is available for international patients, which allows a preliminary discussion of the case with Dr. Ülkür before travel is planned; a final assessment still depends on an in-person examination.