Mehmet Heberal

( Turkey )

·  Professor of General Surgery and Head of the Transplantation Division at Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

·  Founder of Başkent University and the Turkish Organ Transplantation and Burn Foundation.

·  Performed Turkey's first living-donor kidney transplant in 1975.

·  Pioneered several landmark liver and kidney transplantation procedures, including the world's first combined living-donor liver and kidney transplant in 1992.

·  Former President of the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) and the Transplantation Society (TTS).

·  His contributions focus on organ transplantation, burn treatment, and advancing transplant medicine.