Prof. Dr. Sami Akbulut graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine in 1999. In 2008, he completed his residency in General Surgery at the Baskent University Faculty of Medicine. During his residency, he learned the details of liver transplantation from Prof. Mehmet Haberal, who is a worldwide-known academician in the field of organ transplantation. Between 2011 and 2012, Prof. Akbulut completed a fellowship in liver transplant surgery at the Liver Transplant Institute at Inonu University, one of the most important living donor liver transplant centers in the world. In 2020, he became a full professor of surgery at Inonu University. Prof. Akbulut performed over 700 hepatectomies as a member of the Institute of Liver Transplantation at Inonu University Malatya. In 2013, the American College of Surgeons (FACS) admitted him. Prof. Akbulut is especially interested in malignant and benign diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas, and gallbladder surgery, and living donor hepatectomy. Prof. Akbulut completed his PhD studies in public health in 2020, and he became an associate professor of public health in 2023. Prof. Akbulut is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Bioinformatics. Prof. Akbulut has 380 articles in total, and his H-index is 30. For the past two years in a row, he has achieved outstanding success and made his way into Stanford University's list of the world's most influential scientists.