OUR DOCTORS

Prof. Alev Arat Özkan, M.D.

Cardiology

Research assistant and internal medicine residency education at Justus Liebig University with TDGS scholarship in 1991-1994.
Attending physician at the coronary intensive unit in 1997-2001, echocardiography laboratory in 2001-2004 and mainly the catheterization laboratory from 2004 and onwards at İstanbul University’s Cardiology Institute.
Attained the title of associate professor of cardiology in 2006; joined the staff of professors at İstanbul University’s Cardiology Institute in 2012.
Member to the Turkish Society of Cardiology and EAPCI and ACCA subgroups of European Society of Cardiology; member and secretary general to the İstanbul Interventional Cardiology Academy; Scientific Advisory Board member in the Turkish Society of Cardiology archive.
Undertook the leadership of the Women’s Cardiac Health Project Group in 2014-2016.
Currently assistant editor of International Journal of Cardiovascular Academy .
Has over 100 articles, 51 of which have been published on reputable international journals; delivered over 200 presentations at national and international conventions; authored and edited numerous books on cardiology.

Primary fields of clinical interest:
- Interventional cardiology (coronary angiography, intravenous visualization, FFR, iFR, chronic total occlusion),
- Atherosclerosis, risk factors, coronary arterial disease and its complications,
- Female cardiac health, gestational cardiac health,
- Cardiac valve diseases,
- General cardiology (hypertension, heart failure, aortic diseases).

Education	Institution	Year
Cardiology Residency Education	İstanbul University, Cardiology Institute	1995 - 1997
Cardiology Residency Education	Florence Nightingale Hospital	1994 - 1995
Internal Medicine Residency Education	Justus Liebig Uni-Giessen	1991 - 1994
Medical Education	İstanbul University-School of Medicine	1984 - 1990

Title	Institution	Year
Professor	Koç University Hospital	2020 - To date
Professor	IU Cardiology Institute, Department of Cardiology	2012 - 2020
Assoc. Prof.	IU Cardiology Institute, Department of Cardiology	2006 - 2012
Attending Physician	Turkish Kidney Foundation Hospital	2004 - 2005
Attending Physician	İstanbul University, Cardiology Institute	1997 - 2004