Ahmet Tekin

Ahmet Tekin is a Turkish academician and physician working in the field of general surgery and organ transplantation. He served as the General Director of Health Services at the Ministry of Health and has been the rector of Kütahya Health Sciences University since 2023.

Medical education and specialization

He was born in Karaman in 1972; He received his primary, secondary and high school education in the same city. After graduating from Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine, he worked as a research assistant in the anatomy department of this faculty for a while. Then he transferred to Selçuk University and became a general surgery specialist in 2004.

Continuing his professional development in the field of organ transplantation, Tekin received training on the transplantation of solid organs such as liver, kidney and pancreas at the organ transplantation center of Akdeniz University in 2007. He worked as an assistant professor at Selçuk University, and later received the titles of associate professor and professor.

Managerial duties

He started his administrative duty as deputy chief physician at Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Medical Faculty Hospital in 2012, and was appointed chief physician in 2015. During this period, he also served as the director of the faculty's Organ Transplantation Application and Research Center. He was appointed as the General Directorate of Health Services of the Ministry of Health in October 2018 and served in this position for approximately four and a half years.

With the appointment decision published on March 15, 2023, he was appointed rector of Kütahya Health Sciences University and left the general directorate a few days later.

He has published more than a hundred articles and research on surgery and organ transplantation, most of which appeared in international journals.