Best Skin Surgery Doctors Abroad for Australian Patients

Dr. Kadriye Ipek Uzunoglu is a plastic surgeon at Memorial Şişli Hospital in Istanbul. She is a recognized expert in revision rhinoplasty and aesthetic face surgery. Dr. Uzunoglu completed an observership at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She treats patients at a JCI-accredited medical center. This hospital is the first in Turkey to earn this US surgical safety quality standard.

• Specializes in complex nose jobs, breast reconstruction, and body contouring.
• Performs Vaser liposuction and 360 body sculpting techniques.
• Member of the Turkish Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Association.
• Completed additional training in microsurgery and facial aesthetics.

Dr. Onder Surgit is a professor of general surgery at Optimed International Hospital. He is a surgical instructor at the Advanced Medical Technologies Training Center (ITEM). Dr. Surgit treats cancer, obesity, and complex gastrointestinal conditions. He applies laparoscopic techniques for weight loss and tumor removal.

• Specializes in bariatric surgery including gastric sleeve, bypass, and balloon procedures.
• Performs oncological surgeries for breast, lung, stomach, and colon cancer.
• Served as a faculty member at Turgut Ozal and Atilim Universities.
• Works at AACI-accredited Optimed International Hospital in Tekirdag, Turkey.

Dr. Haluk Duman is a Professor of Plastic Surgery at Anadolu Medical Center in Istanbul. He specializes in reconstructive surgery after cancer, burns, and skin tumors. Dr. Duman completed a high-level fellowship at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in the US. He treats both adult and pediatric patients for complex hand and maxillofacial conditions.

• Published over 60 scientific papers on micro-surgery and aesthetic procedures.
• Member of the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery.
• Expert in breast reconstruction, melanoma surgery, and maxillofacial reconstruction.
• Works at Anadolu, a clinic affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Zeynep Civelek is a general surgeon. She treats benign perianal diseases, including hemorrhoids (with laser), anal fissure, fistula, condyloma, and pilonidal disease, and performs rubber band ligation. She also manages breast disease and cancer, skin cancers, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and hernias. She worked full-time at Bayindir Levent Medical Center from 2010 to 2025. Earlier, she served at Şişli and Gayrettepe Florence Nightingale Hospitals. She completed her general surgery training at SSK Okmeydanı from 2000 to 2006. She earned her MD from Marmara University, ranking 12th in her class. She also trained in GI surgery for inflammatory bowel disease at the University of Florence in August 2000.

Her research focuses on prognostic factors in breast and colorectal cancer. She wrote a melanoma thesis in 2006 and co-authored papers in Cancer (2005), Breast (2006, 2014), Annals of Surgical Oncology (2008), The Breast Journal (2011), ISRN Oncology (2011), Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology (2012), World Journal of Surgery (2013; 2,151 patients), International Journal of Surgery (2014), and Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer (2017).