Serdar Nasır

Serdar Nazif Nasır is a Turkish plastic surgeon. An associate professor at the Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara, he led the team that performed in February 2012 the second full face transplant in Turkey.

Education Nasır finished the high school 1989 in Yenimahalle, Ankara. He completed his medical education at the Medicine Faculty of Ankara University in 1996. Between 1996-2002, he conducted his specialty education in the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery of Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine.

After working seven years at Süleyman Demirel University in Isparta, Serdar Nasır returned to Hacettepe University in 2009.

He carried out further studies between 2006-2008 on composite tissue transplants at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA.

The face of 25-year-old Cengiz Gül was badly burnt in a television tube implosion accident when he was two-years of age. The donor was 40-year-old N. A. (his family did not allow revealing of his identity), who was declared brain dead two days before the surgery following a motorcycle accident occurred on February 17. This case was accepted as first quadruple extremity transplantation in the world.

Awards Serdar Nasır is the winner of second prizes in national competitions of experimental and clinical specialty for plastic surgery.