Meet the editors

Dr. Burhan Hakan Kanat graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, İnönü University, Turkey, in 2005. He trained in general surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, Fırat University, Turkey, in 2011. He also worked as a specialist at the Elazığ Training and Research Hospital in Turkey. In 2013, he received a Certificate of Surgical Competence from the Turkish Surgery Society. He completed liver transplantation surgery at İnönü University

in 2014–2015 and received training in breast-endocrine surgery in 2016. Dr. Kanat also worked at the Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences University, Turkey, as an associate professor from 2017 to 2020. Since October 2020, he has worked as an associate professor in the Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Malatya Turgut Özal University, Turkey. He is a member of the Turkish Surgical Society, International Pilonidal Society, and Turkish Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery. Dr. Kanat is the author of more than 100 publications including 10 book chapters. He is also a review board member for several journals.

Dr. Nizamettin Kutluer graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Fırat University, Turkey, in 2004. In 2011, he received general surgery training at Ankara Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital in Turkey. He first worked as a surgical specialist at Yerköy State Hospital, Turkey, in 2012. Then, in 2014, he worked as a general surgery specialist at Elazığ Training and Research Hospital, Turkey. He studied obe-

sity and metabolic surgery at Elazig Fırat University, Turkey. Dr. Kutluer has been working as a general surgery specialist at Elazığ Private Eastern Anatolia Hospital, Turkey, since 2020.

Dr. Serhat Doğan graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Turkey, in 2008. He trained in general surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram Medicine School Konya, Turkey, in 2015. He also worked as a specialist at the Malatya Training and Research Hospital in Turkey. Since October 2021, he has worked as an assistant professor at the Department of General Surgery, Fac-

ulty of Medicine, Malatya Turgut Özal University, Turkey. Dr. Doğan is a member of the Turkish Surgical Society and an author of more than twenty publications including six book chapters. He is also a review board member for several journals.
