<p>Dr. Turker earned his MD from the Istanbul University of Medicine in 1999. He then attended<the Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine with the Department of Orthopedic<and Traumatology receiving his creditation in Orthopaedic Specialty in 2005. He completed a<Junior Fellowshiat the Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Micro Surgery in Louisville,Kentucky in 2009 and then went on to complete Senior Fellowships at that same institute<in 2011. He joined the University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Department of Surgery in<July 2011 as a Research Associate with the Division of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery,later that same year he was appointed Assistant Professor. In 2014 he was appointed<Assistant Professor with the Department of Orthopaedics and as of April of 2016, he now<holds joint appointments with the Department of Surgery and the Department of Orthopaedics.Dr. Turker is an active member of such organizations as the American Society for Surgery of<the Hand and the Kleinert Society. He is also a member of the Deans Research Council here<at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine. He is co-author to a few book chapters and<also is a Translator of Chapters in Monographs from English to Turkish for the Hayat Medical<Publisher Grouin Turkey. He has numerous peer reviewed publications and abstracts and<has been an invited speaker to many Orthopaedics Federations and Congress both in the<local and international circuit. Dr. Turker is actively involved in the teaching of our Medical<Students and Residents and has also held formal educational sessions for Medical Network<Professionals locally.