This accomplished medical professional was born in Elazığ in 1966 and graduated from Fırat University's medical school with honors in 1989. They became a full professor in 2009 and have held prestigious roles such as Deputy Chief of Clinic and Deputy Chief of Hospital at Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital. They also served as the founding Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Akdeniz University Alanya and Director of the Alcohol and Substance Dependency Research and Application Center at Akdeniz University.