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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akın Akakın, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery · İSÜ Liv Hospital Bahçeşehir
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akın Akakın is a neurosurgeon at İSÜ Liv Hospital Bahçeşehir, with operative expertise in brain tumour surgery, cerebrovascular neurosurgery (aneurysms), functional neurosurgery for Parkinson's disease, tremor and dystonia, and cerebral palsy. He completed his MD and neurosurgery training at Marmara University School of Medicine, with a 2011 PhD program in neuroanatomy at the University of Florida Department of Neurosurgery. He received the 2011 Asian European Neurosurgery Academy Award.
Specialties: Neurosurgery
University of Florida
neuroanatomy fellowship
Gamma Knife
trained
2011 Award
Asian European Neurosurgery Academy
Brain Tumour SurgeryCerebral AneurysmFunctional NeurosurgeryParkinson's / DBSGamma Knife
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CONSULTATION LANGUAGES
TR Turkish · native
EN English · professional
RU Russian · via BergemHealth coordinator
UK Ukrainian · via BergemHealth coordinator
ISTANBUL · 05/2026
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
  • ★
    2011
    Asian European Neurosurgery Academy Award
    Asian European Neurosurgery Academy
EDUCATION & CAREER

Timeline

Career milestones.

1995-1997
Child Psychiatry Department
Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul (per Liv profile)
2002
Molecular Neurosurgery Laboratory
Marmara University
present
Neurosurgeon
İSÜ Liv Hospital Bahçeşehir
PUBLICATIONS

Scientific work

Selected peer-reviewed publications.

  • 2008
    Front Neurol Neurosci
    «Anatomy of cerebral veins and sinuses»
    · co-author
  • 2016
    Eur Spine J
    «Vertebral artery loops in surgical perspective»
    · co-author
  • 2015
    Childs Nerv Syst
    «Gamma Knife treatment of low-grade gliomas in children»
    · co-author
  • 2016
    Springerplus
    «Isolated third ventricle glioblastoma»
    · co-author
  • 2016
    Spine J
    «Cervical digit: a rare developmental anomaly»
    · co-author
  • 2017
    Pediatr Neurosurg
    «Bilateral Central Foot Drop in a Pediatric Patient»
    · co-author
CLINIC

Where they practise

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PRIMARY CLINIC
İSÜ Liv Hospital Bahçeşehir
A multidisciplinary Liv Hospital campus on the European side of Istanbul. Opened in December 2016. 60+ departments: cardiology, neurosurgery, oncology, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology. da Vinci surgery, 3 Tesla MRI.
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