CENK AKBOSTANCI

CENK AKBOSTANCI

Expert Neurologist in Movement Disorder , Ankara University Ibni Sina Medicine Faculty

CENK AKBOSTANCI

M Cenk Akbostancı, born in 1964, completed his secondary and high school education at TED Zonguldak Private High School. He graduated from Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine in 1988, ranking third in his class. He began his specialization training in Neurology at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 1989 and completed it in 1993, being appointed as an assistant professor in the same clinic in 1994. In 1997-1998, he worked as a visiting professor at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon, USA, with Prof J Nutt on botulinum toxin therapy and with Prof K Burchiel on surgical treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders, focusing on microelectrode recordings and deep brain stimulator programming. In the year 2000, Dr Akbostancı was appointed as an associate professor at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, where he established the Movement Disorders Unit in 1992. He is currently a faculty member at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Department of Neurology and Ankara University Rectorate Department of Neuroscience, serving as the head of the Movement Disorders Unit and director of the Ankara University Brain Research Research and Application Center. For the past eighteen years, he has been organizing the Botulinum Toxin Autumn Symposium regularly. He has written four textbooks on movement disorders. His international work can be accessed on PubMed with the keyword AKBOSTANCI. In his clinical practice, he evaluates only patients with Parkinson’s Disease, dystonia, and other movement disorders.