Prof. Mehmet Ziya Özüer, MD

Prof. Mehmet Ziya Özüer, MD is an otorhinolaryngologist with more than 39 years in medicine. He graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1987 and completed his training in Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases at Ege University Faculty of Medicine in 1992, where he worked from 1987 to 1992. His training also included periods in Germany: he was a Clinical fellow at Erlangen University Faculty of Medicine, ENT Clinic, Erlangen – Germany in 1991, a Clinical fellow at the Department of ENT, University of Düsseldorf Krefeld Teaching Hospital, Germany in 1993, and a Research and Clinical fellow at University of Regensburg Faculty of Medicine, ENT Clinic, Germany in 1996.

From 1993 to 1995 Dr. Özüer worked as a Specialist Dr. at SB Elmadağ State Hospital Hospital. He then joined Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of ENT, where he was Asst.Assoc.Dr. from 1995 to 1998 and Assoc. Dr. from 1998 to 2000. Between 2000 and 2012 he worked at the SSK Bozyaka (SB İzmir Bozyaka) Training and Research Hospital ENT Clinic. He was Prof. Dr. at Shifa University Faculty of Medicine from 2012 to 2016 and joined Acibadem Health Group as Prof. Dr. in 2016. He is a member of the Turkish Society of Otology and Neuro-Ootology and the Turkish Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery Association.

Clinical focus

Dr. Özüer’s listed areas of expertise cover conditions of the ear, throat and larynx. In otology, these include tympanic membrane perforation, round window membrane injury, revision stapes surgery, and round window application of implantable hearing aids. In the throat and larynx, his listed areas include lingual tonsillar hypertrophy and microdebrider-assisted lingual tonsillectomy, tonsillectomy, external laryngeal trauma, inferior laryngeal nerve reconstruction, and laryngeal electromyography. Other listed conditions are maxillary sinus mucopyocele and external auditory canal tick infestation.

His profile lists ten publications dated between 2003 and 2019. Their subjects include revision stapes surgery, round window application of implantable hearing aids in radical cavities, management of lingual tonsillar hypertrophy using a microdebrider, the effects of tonsillectomy on acoustic parameters, external laryngeal trauma, mucopyocele of the maxillary sinus, and ticks in the external auditory canal. He has also co-authored experimental studies on tympanic membrane perforation and round window membrane injury in rats, and on laryngeal electromyography after reconstruction of the inferior laryngeal nerve in rabbits.

How Dr. Özüer works with international patients

Dr. Özüer speaks Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for other languages. The Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, arranges appointments and organises 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 options. Video consultation is available, which allows patients abroad to speak with Dr. Özüer before deciding whether to travel.