Medicana IVF Center in Turkey

Dr Selman Laçin graduated from the Faculty of Gulhane Military Medical Academy in 1988 and completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Izmir Dokuz Eylul University between 1991 and 1996. Dr Laçin began as an assistant professor at the Manisa Celal Bayar University and became an Associate Professor in 2002. After working in the academy for eight years, he moved to Istanbul. Dr Laçin has worked at the Swedish Karolinska Institute, Department of OB/GYN, at Israel Tel-Aviv University, and at the assisted reproduction and IVF Center of the Gulhane Military Medical Academy. Over 80 of Dr Laçin’s articles have been published in local and international scientific journals, and he has also contributed to four books. Between 2004 and 2007, Dr Laçin practised at the Istanbul Memorial Hospital IVF Center. He then established the Medical Park Hospital IVF Center and served as its director from 2007 to 2008, after which he began working for the Medicana Health Group. Dr Laçin is a member of many professional and social organizations at home and abroad. His main areas of interest are hormonal disorders, infertility, IVF and Gynecologic Endoscopic (laparoscopic and hysteroscopic) Surgery. Dr Selman Laçin is now the director of the Medicana International Hospital IVF Center in Beylikduzu, Istanbul.

Dr Aysun Guney Laçin is a gynaecologist who completed her primary and secondary education in Denizli and later graduated from Ege University’s Faculty of Medicine. Dr Laçin completed her speciality training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Haseki Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul between 1992 and 1996. She worked at the Denizli IVF Center from 1998 - 2003, and moved to Istanbul again in 2007, where she worked at the Istanbul Memorial Hospital IVF Center and the Medical Park Hospital IVF Center.

Dr Zeki Duman was born in Iskenderun. He received his medical degree from Hacettepe Medical Faculty in 1996 and then completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the İstanbul Medical Faculty in 2002. Between 2002 and 2009, Dr Duman served at the Istanbul Cerrahi Hospital. In 2015, he received the reproductive and infertility certificate from Istanbul Medical Faculty’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Department. Currently, Dr Duman works for Medicana International Istanbul Hospital IVF Center as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist.

After graduating from Istanbul University’s Faculty of Medicine in 1997, Professor Bülent Alici completed his residency in Urology between 2010 and 2011 at the Taksim Education and Research Hospital. Professor Alici is a urologist who is especially interested in minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopy, hysteroscopy, and urogynecology) and andrology (microTESE, PESA, TESA operations). He 2008, Professor Alici worked at the Laparoscopy Hospital in New Delhi with Dr R. K. Mishra on minimal access surgery. He also completed a course in urogynecology (needleless and sure-lift) operations at Sant Joan de Deu Hospital in Barcelona. Currently, Professor Alici practices at the Taksim Educational and Research Hospital and also works as a consultant at Medicana International Istanbul Hospital.

Dr Muhsin Balaban graduated from Marmara University’s Faculty of Medicine in 2006 and continued his urology residency in Istanbul at Kartal Training and Research Hospital between 2006 and 2011.

During his residency, Dr Balaban visited Cleveland Clinic, Glickman Urological Institute in Ohio, Albert Einstein University Beth Israel Hospital, and Memorial Sloan Kattering Cancer Center, in New York. He continued his education and training in andrology, infertility, endourology and laparoscopic urology at these prestigious medical institutions.

Dr Balaban is a member of the following associations:

• European Urological Association.

• Turkish Urological Association.

• Turkish Andrological Association.

• Turkish Endourological Association.

Over the years, Dr Balaban has done extensive work and research on the diagnosis and management of the full spectrum of male infertility, including sperm acquisition, and complex reconstruction of the reproductive tract. He has great experience in testicular sperm aspiration (TESA), microscopic testicular sperm extraction (microTESE), vasovasostomy, and vasoepididymostomy.

Dr Ridvan Seckin Ozen was born in 1966 in Izmir, Turkey. He received his medical degree in 1990 from Gülhane (GATA) Medical Faculty in Ankara. He went on to complete his PhD degree in Medical Genetics in a joint program of the Medical Genetics departments of Gulhane Medical Faculty and the University of Pittsburgh. Until 2000, Dr Ozen worked in the GATA Molecular Genetics Lab in Ankara. After completing several projects in population genetics, genomics, biotechnology, and prenatal and postnatal molecular genetics diagnosis, he specialized in reproductive genetics and the characterization of affected human embryonic lines. Dr Ozen performed and improved preimplantation genetics diagnosis techniques for six years at the Reproductive Genetics Institute in Chicago, which is recognized as the worldwide reference lab. In 2007, he moved to the Children’s Memorial Hospital Research Center at Northwestern University in Chicago. In 2009, Dr Ozen established the Istanbul Genetics Group of which he is the owner and Medical Director today.

Elpida Şahbaz is an embryologist who graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Medical Biology in 1998. She serves as our biologist and also the head of the laboratory. Between 2000 and 2002, Miss Şahbaz worked at Kadıköy Şifa Hospital IVF Center, and from 2002 to 2017, she was stationed at the IVF Center at Özel Yüzyıl Hospital. Miss Şahbaz shows a keen interest in sperm selection for ICSI, embryo and blastocyst development and transfer, and embryo freezing and thawing. After December 2017, Miss Şahbaz joined Medicana Health Group and Medicana International Istanbul Hospital IVF laboratory, where she continues her work as the head of the IVF lab today.

Miss Yelda Sertbas is a graduate from Istanbul University’s Faculty of Economics. She serves as our international patient coordinator. Miss Sertbas worked with international hospitals between 1996 and 2008 as the Patient Services Supervisor. She served at Medicana International from 2008 to 2009 and at Florence Nightingale from 2009 to 2010. Miss Sertbas was also the Patient Services Manager at Kolan Hospital from 2010 to 2012. In 2015, she began working at Medicana International Hospital at our International Patient Center. Today Miss Yelda Sertbas works at Medicana International Istanbul IVF Center as the Co-ordinator for International Patients.

Dr Eylem Piacentini graduated from Istanbul University’s Medical Faculty in 1998. She completed her residency and fellowship in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the same university. Between 2009 and 2010, Dr Piacentini finished her postgraduate studies at Istanbul Memorial Hospital and received her ART certification.

Below is a list of Dr Paicentini’s work experience:

• Turkey Foreign Ministry, Afghanistan Health Help Organisation, Ob/Gyn, 2003 - 2004.

• Yildiztabya Bilge Hospital, Istanbul, Ob/Gyn, 2003 - 2009.

• Istanbul Memorial Hospital, IVF, 2009 - 2010.

• Medicana Hospital, Istanbul, Ob/Gyn and IVF, 2010 - 2014.

• Arbil Bahceci IVF Center, Iraq, Head of the IVF Team, 2014 - 2016.

• Bahceci Health Group, IVF Clinic, 2018 - 2019.

Dr Eylem Paicentini currently practises at Medicana International Istanbul Hospital IVF Center as an obstetrician and gynaecologist.