Mehmet Haberal, MD, FACS(HON), FICS(HON), FASA(HON)

Professor of Surgery
President and Rector of Baskent University
Professor Mehmet Haberal is an internationally renowned transplant surgeon who pioneered kidney and liver transplantation in Turkey. He became one of the most highly regarded transplant physicians in the world because of his many contributions to advancing the science and medicine of organ transplantation.
Haberal is the Founder and President of the Turkish Transplantation Society (TOND) and Founder and first President of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT). He served as Councilor of The Transplantation Society (TTS) representing the Middle East and Africa for the term 2004-2008 and as President of the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) for the term 2006-2008.
In 2012, Prof. Haberal founded and is currently President of The World Academy of Medical, Biomedical and Ethical Sciences (WAMBES). Prof. Haberal is also Founder and President of Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey, which has established 10 hospitals and 14 dialysis centers throughout the country. In the general election held on June 12, 2011, Prof. Haberal was elected a Member of Parliament from the province of Zonguldak on behalf of the People’s Republican Party (CHP).

On November 3, 1975, in the Department of General Surgery at Hacettepe University, he performed the first living-related renal transplantation in Turkey with a kidney donated from a mother to her 12-year old son.
On October 10, 1978, he performed the first cadaveric kidney transplantation in Turkey with an organ supplied by the Eurotransplant International Foundation.
He initiated the legislation “On the Harvesting, Storage, Grafting and Transplantation of Organs and Tissues” which was passed in the Turkish parliament for the first time on June 3, 1979.
He performed the first ever successful Cadaver Liver Transplantation in Turkey, the Middle East and Northern Africa on December 8, 1988.
He performed the first pediatric segmental living-related liver transplantation in Turkey, the region, and Europe on March 15, 1990.
On April 24, 1990, he performed the first adult segmental living related living-related liver transplantation in the world.

On May 16, 1992, he performed the first combined liver-kidney transplantation from a living-related donor, the first operation of its kind anywhere in the world