Prof. Dr. Nazım Çerkeş
Past President of ISAPS
Past President of Rhinoplasty Society of Europe
Past President of Turkish Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Nazim Cerkes completed his plastic surgery training in Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He worked as research and clinical fellow in UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham)-USA at the Department of Plastic Surgery between 1990-1991.
Between 1992-2002 Nazim Cerkes worked at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine as Associate Professor. He particularly worked in the field of reconstructive microsurgery during this period.
In 2002 Dr.Cerkes founded Cosmed Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Center in Istanbul and has been in private practice since that year.
In the last 20 years Dr.Cerkes has focused on aesthetic surgery, particularly on rhinoplasty. He has been invited several international meetings as speaker. Dr Cerkes was President of Turkish Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery between 2009-2012. He is one of the founding member of The Rhinoplasty Society of Europe and served as President of the Society between 2016-2019.
Dr Cerkes was Board Member of International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery(ISAPS) between 2010-2024. During this period he served as Education Council Chair, Vice President and finally as President of ISAPS between 2020-2022. He is ISAPS Visiting Professor and Rhinoplasty Section Editor of the Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journal.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barış Çakır
Born in Adana in 1975, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barış Çakır entered Çukurova Faculty of Medicine in 1993 after graduating from Çukurova Electrical Anatolian Technical High School. During his technical high school education, he worked in “manual skill development workshops” for 4 years. Therefore, he planned to choose a surgical branch where he could use this skill after graduating from medical school.
He started his Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery training at Kartal Education and Research Hospital in 1999. He continued his studies on microsurgery, one of the most difficult surgical branches. He performed nearly 500 microsurgical operations during his education at Kartal Education and Research Hospital. He worked on fingertip avulsions in children.
During his studies, he developed a new “vascular suture technique” and prepared his thesis on this subject. He presented the vascular suture technique he developed at the 2004 National Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Congress and won the “first prize in the experimental branch assistant presentation competition” with this study. He worked on muscle movements in the repair of cleft lip, which is a congenital anomaly, and the muscle suture technique he developed was awarded the “first prize in the assistant presentation competition in the clinical branch”.
In 2004, he worked with Dr. Serdar Eren at the Media Park clinic in Cologne, Germany for 1 month. During his assistant training, he published 11 international and 8 national articles and made 9 oral presentations at national congresses. After his specialization, he became interested in sculpture and art history in order to achieve more successful aesthetic surgery results. He received sculpture education at the Fine Arts Department of Isparta Süleyman Demirel University. He continued his sculpture education at the Fine Arts Department of Malatya İnönü University. He continues his sculpture and drawing education with Yusuf Başoğlu. Assoc. Prof. Barış Çakır is married and has two children.
Assoc. Prof. Barış Çakır is the first Turkish doctor to break new ground in the world with his rhinoplasty (nose aesthetic) surgeries that he performs “without disrupting the natural structure of the nose”. His own inventions, “Çakır Polygons” and Çakır Nasal Bone Rasp” are used by his colleagues worldwide in rhinoplasty surgeries. Since he combines his passion for his profession with his love for sculpture, he performs each surgery with the mastery of a competent doctor and a delicate sculptor.
Barış Çakır, who performs more than 200 rhinoplasty surgeries per year, organizes rhinoplasty courses worldwide as well as international congresses in Turkey.
The reason behind Barış Çakır being one of the most invited and applauded speakers in the world is that he does his job with his love of art. The famous plastic surgeon, who provides services in his clinic in Nişantaşı, performs his surgeries at the American Hospital..
Op. Dr. Erhan Coşkun
I was born in Bursa in 1982. I graduated from Balıkesir Sırrı Yırcalı Anatolian High School in 2000. In the same year, I participated in an intercultural exchange program in Oregon, USA, for 1 year. I graduated from Hacettepe English Faculty of Medicine, which I started in 2001, in 2007. In 2006, I worked as an intern doctor at the Department of Plastic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, for 1 month. In 2008, I started my specialization training at Başkent University Ankara Hospital, Department of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery and completed my specialization as a specialist in 2015. For the following 3 years, I worked at Adana Doctor Aşkım Tüfekçi State Hospital and City Hospital Plastic Surgery Clinics. I have been continuing to provide services in my practice in Nişantaşı since 2020.