Bahadır M. GÜLLÜOĞLU, MD, FEBS (Hon)
Academic Lead

Prof. Gulluoglu graduated from Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1991. He completed his general surgery residency at Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, where he held his post as assistant professor. In 1998, he founded the Breast & Endocrine Surgery Unit at the university hospital. Prof. Gulluoglu also held an associate faculty member post at the Breast & Endocrine Surgery Unit at Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, in 2000 and 2008. He worked as a tenured professor at Marmara University School of Medicine since 2009 and retired in 2026. He formerly served as the Vice-Coordinator and Head-Coordinator for clinical graduate medical education at Marmara University between 2007 and 2012. Prof. Gulluoglu was a member of his university's Institutional Review Board from 2011 to 2026. He serves as a faculty member at Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology, Târgu Mureș, Romania, and Kragujevac University, Serbia. Prof. Gulluoglu is a co-founder of Marmara University Hospital, Breast Center (2001). Prof. Gulluoglu also serves as a core faculty member at the International Breast Ultrasonography School (IBUS) and the Mediterranean Association of Mastology (formerly MANOSMED Mediterranean University of Mastology). He holds honorary fellowships from both the European Board of General Surgery and Breast Surgery. Besides, he worked as a member of the BRESO (European Breast Surgical Oncology Certification) Working Group. Prof. Gulluoglu is currently the academic leader of SENATURK (Senology Academy-Turkiye) and country coordinator of the Oncoplastic Breast Consortium (OPBC) in Basel, Switzerland. He formerly served at the UEMS Breast Surgery Division of the European Board of Surgery and Senologic International Society (SIS) as deputy secretary, the Committee for National Breast Cancer Screening at the Turkish Ministry of Health as the chair, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Resource-Stratified Guideline Advisory Group as a member, the Global Technical Oversight Group for the development of a Global Breast Cancer Training Package for low and middle-income countries in Africa, a collaborative effort between the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET), the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS)-UK, and Blended Learning UK and the Patient Access Partnership (PACT) Project as stakeholder at European Parliament in Brussels. Besides, Prof. Gulluoglu is an honorary member of the Bulgarian Surgical Society, the Romanian Society for Breast Surgery and Oncology, and the Association of Breast Surgeons of India (ABSI). He is the founding executive member of the Turkish Society of Breast Surgery and the institutional research coordinator of the EORTC Breast Cancer Group. Prof. Gulluoglu is one of the international steering committee members of the EUBREAST MELODY and I-PREPARE studies. Prof. Gulluoglu is also the program chair of SENATURK’s International “Multidisciplinary Breast Health Care & Advanced Breast Cancer Surgery” Fellowship Program in Istanbul. He also serves as one of the board of directors of Breastics24h, which is a global network for good clinical practice in breast surgery. Prof. Gulluoglu is the co-chair of the International Istanbul Breast Cancer Conference (Breastanbul) and the (Turkish) National Health Quality Forum (USKAF). He is the convenor of Istanbul Reconstructive Breast Cancer Surgery (IREBS), Breast Surgical Ultrasound (SENUS), and Breast Surgery Essentials (BRESSENTIAL) workshops. Currently, he serves as the associate editor at Breast Care (Karger). Prof. Gulluoglu also serves as a member of various international trials' independent data monitoring committees.