Cardiologist
Who is Prof. Dr. Erdem Özel?
Prof. Dr. Erdem Özel, born in Izmir in 1980, graduated with honors from Ege University Faculty of Medicine in 2003, where he had also ranked first in his entrance exam in 1997. He completed his specialization in cardiology at Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine and became a Cardiology Specialist in 2009. Between 2009 and 2011, Dr. Erdem Özel fulfilled his compulsory service in Burdur.
In 2011, he returned to Izmir, and from 2011 to 2016, he worked at various private hospitals in Izmir. Since 2016, he had been serving as an invasive cardiologist at the Health Sciences University Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, one of Turkey’s busiest cardiology clinics. He obtained the title of Associate Professor (Doç. Dr.) at the same clinic in 2017.
As an invasive cardiologist, his areas of special interest include coronary angiography, balloon-stent procedures, complex coronary interventions, bioabsorbable stent technologies, and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) through the groin.
Dr. Erdem Özel received TAVI training in Milan, Italy, and completed certification programs for the three most commonly used aortic valves, earning the title of practitioner in this field. He has been actively involved in pioneering teams and projects in Turkey and has performed this procedure on numerous patients.
In addition to numerous interventional procedures, Prof. Dr. Erdem Özel has been involved in cardiac rehabilitation for the past five years. In 2020, he completed the cardiac rehabilitation programs of the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR), one of the world’s leading organizations in this field, and obtained certification.
In 2021, Dr. Özel was accepted as a visiting professor at the Inselspital Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinic, one of the world’s leading centers for cardiac prevention, rehabilitation, and sports cardiology, affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. During this time, he worked alongside Prof. Dr. Matthias Wilhelm on cardiac rehabilitation research.
Dr. Özel has published numerous scientific articles and in 2020, he pioneered the creation of an expert document containing recommendations for pre-exercise advice for athletes with heart disease or heart pacemakers, which was a first in Turkey. He is a member of the European Society of Cardiology, Turkish Society of Cardiology, and Turkish Society of Cardiology’s Sports Cardiology working group.
Prof. Dr. Erdem Özel has been working in his own private clinic since 2021 and performing interventional cardiology procedures in contracted private hospitals.
Prof. Dr. Erdem Özel embraces the motto “Protect Your Heart,” is fluent in English, and is married and has one child.
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