PROF. CAN SOLAKOĞLU, M. D.

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Prof. Dr. Can Solakoğlu was born in 1962 in İstanbul. He was the oldest son of his family.Since his father was an Officer, he had been in different locations in Turkey until he enteredto Kuleli Military High School. After graduation from this school with an honor degreein 1980, he became a military Medical Student at Ataturk University in Erzurum, later hetransferred to Gülhane Military Medical Faculty of Medicine in Ankara. After graduation in1986, he served as a medical doctor for 2 years in Artvin and during this period, he was sentto Military Medical Center in San Antonia - Texas, USA for Public Heath in the field. Startedhis 4 years specialty in Orthopedics and Traumatology in 1990 in GATA. He worked as anAssistant Prof in 1995-1997, GATA Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.He served as an Military Health Attaché at Turkish Embassy,Washington DC in 1997-2000.He took his Associate Professor degree in Orthopaedics in 2004 at GATA HaydarpaşaTeaching Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. His interest in spinal surgery turned to full contributionin this field and has opportunity of becoming a research fellow under the supervisionof Ziya Gökaslan John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He became professor at MaltepeUniversity in 2012.His interest of field and publication mainly focused on Spine and Arthroplasty surgery. Hehad 65 international, 30 national articles.