Cenk Yücel Bilen Muayenehane

I was born in Ankara in After completing my primary, secondary and high school education in TED Ankara College, I started my education at the Faculty of Medicine at Hacettepe University in After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine in , I began to serve as a research assistant at the Department of Urology at Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University in the same year. Then, I began to serve as an attending physician at the Department of Urology in After working as an attending physician in the same department between the years , I completed my military service in Gülhane Military Medical Academy in After completing my military service, I returned my post in Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University. After passing the scholarship exam organized by the British Council in, I went to Cambridge University Addenbrooke’s Hospital in England and made research in the field of Pediatric Urology for a year. I became the associate professor of urology after fulfilling the criteria for associate professorship in The research we presented to the 7th National Congress of Cancer was awarded with Bedii Gorbon Award in After passing the international postdoctoral scholarship exam organized by TUBITAK in the same year, I worked on urological cancer in Urology Clinic, Stanford University, USA for a year. Since , I have been working on urological cancer at our Department of Urology at Hacettepe University. I was selected as one of the three Turkish delegates of the Genitourinary Group in European Organization of Research and Treatment of Cancer in I was selected for membership in the Administrative Board of the Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University and worked as the member of the Board in I worked as the vice-coordinator at Faculty of Medicine in I worked as the assistant secretary general in the 1st International Workshop on Urooncology in Ankara in I worked in the editorial boards of different journals including Hacettepe Acta Medica (formerly Hacettepe Medical Journal), Hacettepe Medical Journal and Turkish Clinics Medical Research. I became a full professor in I was awarded with the Encouragement Award of Tubitak in I was appointed to the vice-dean post at Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University in I have been working as the editor of Urology Bulletin since January I served as the chairperson of 2nd -9th International Urooncology Workshop-Congress in Ankara in , , , , , , and After working as the assistant secretary general for the Ankara Association of Urologists in , I was selected as the president of Ankara Association of Urologists in

I was selected as a member of the Executive Board of the Council for Coordination of Medical Specialties in and began to serve this national highest-level civil institution for the education and training of assistants. Then, I was selected as the Second President of the Turkish Association of Urooncology in I was appointed as the coordinator of the postgraduate education and training in medicine at Hacettepe University in I served as the president of the Association of Urooncology in

I was selected as the head of the Department of Urology at Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University in March , I left the post in , and got selected again in September Since , I have been serving as the president of the Board of Competency in the Association of Urological Surgery. I am honored to be selected as the full member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences in

Furthermore, my three different articles were published in Year Book of Urology, which was published in , and Year Book of Urology involves the selected articles of the year. In addition, I was invited as a guest writer of the articles concerning bladder cancer in Current Opinion in Oncology in , , , , , , , , and There are references to my articles indexed in SCI . I am married with two children.

By January , I was appointed as the Rector of Hacettepe University. Presently, I am serving as the president (Rector) of Hacettepe University, and member of ‘Board of Trustees’ of Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus.