Prof. Dr. Karaca Başaran

Prof. Dr. Karaca Başaran is a plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon who graduated from Marmara University School of Medicine. In 2003 he passed the written and oral examinations of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG; USMLE Steps 1–3), the certification required to practise medicine in the United States.

His international training includes a surgical rotation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston), an internal-medicine rotation at Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College (London) and advanced specialty training at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health (Philadelphia). Licensed to examine and operate on patients in the US, he took part in approximately 500 operations alongside leading American surgeons.

He completed focused training in breast aesthetics with James Grotting, MD and Louis Vasconez, MD (Birmingham, Alabama, 2009), breast reconstruction with Hilton Becker, MD, endoscopic facial aesthetics with Oscar Ramirez, MD (Miami) and rhinoplasty with Nazım Cerkeş, MD.

Body contouring after massive weight loss, the field most relevant to tummy tuck patients, is a core focus: he trained with Joe Hunstad, MD (Charlotte), Ozan Sozer, MD (El Paso) and Constantino Mendieta, MD (Miami), and operated with Raul Gonzalez, MD in Brazil on body and buttock aesthetics. He also trained in migraine surgery with Bahman Guyuron, MD (Cleveland), minimally invasive facial surgery with Daniel Baker, MD (New York) and microsurgery at the University of Zurich (2007).