Prof. Dr. Ufuk Aydınlı

Prof. Dr. Ufuk Aydınlı is an orthopedic surgery and traumatology specialist at Acibadem Bursa Hospital with 46 years of experience, and his listed expertise reads as a map of complex spine surgery: adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, malignant sacrum tumors, spinal osteotomy, posterior vertebral column resection, corpectomy with titanium mesh cage placement, transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, posterior cervical screw placement, iliosacral fixation and type-1 hemipelvectomy. These are the operations spine surgery reserves for its hardest problems — severe deformity and tumours involving the spine and pelvis.

He graduated from Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Medicine in 1980 and completed specialty training in orthopedics and traumatology there in 1984, having earlier spent 1976 to 1978 at the University of Virginia School of Medicine as a research assistant. He served on the orthopedics and traumatology faculty of Uludağ University through the 1980s and 1990s, and joined Acıbadem Health Group in 2006.

His standing in the international spine community is documented in his roles rather than adjectives: AO International Trustee from 2015 to 2019, member of the AOSpine International Education Committee from 2010 to 2013, AOSpine Europe Education Advisor since 2013, chairperson of AOSpine Turkey from 2007 to 2010, president of the Spine Expert Group in 2010, and a Scoliosis Research Society member from 1996 to 2008 — ten professional bodies in all. His published work, dated between 2012 and 2023, tracks the same territory: titanium mesh cage placement and interbody fusion in biomechanical and experimental models, posterior cervical screw placement training, posterior vertebral column resection, adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, malignant sacrum tumors and iliosacral fixation.

Prof. Dr. Aydınlı consults in Turkish and English.