He was born in Malatya, Turkey, in 1965. He completed his primary and secondary education in Malatya. He graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine (Ankara, Turkey) in 1989. He completed his Pediatric Surgery specialization at Ege University (İzmir, Turkey) in 1995. He received the title of Associate Professor in 2000 and Professor in 2006. He has been working in İnönü University (Malatya, Turkey) Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Surgery since 1995. In 1997-98, he worked at the Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and the Shriners Burn Center in Galveston. He founded the Pediatric Burn Intensive Care and Pediatric Urology Department at the İnönü University Faculty of Medicine. He is currently the Head of the Department of Departments of Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Urology and Pediatric Burn Center at Inonu University Faculty of Medicine. He currently focused on studies on the local and systemic effects of burn dressings.