Medical Specialty
The official medical specialty is recorded separately from hair transplantation. “Hair Transplant Specialist” is not used as a medical specialty; it describes a clinical focus or role, not a Turkish residency branch.
Credential Membership
No accepted hair-restoration credential membership has yet been verified for this profile.
Techniques
Technique labels are tracked separately from medical specialty and operative responsibility. A check mark identifies a technique verified in the current research record; a question mark means it has not yet been verified for this doctor.
Doctor Involvement
These five stages are tracked separately. A check mark means the doctor’s personal involvement is verified; a question mark means the public evidence is not yet sufficient to confirm that stage.
Procedures
Procedure types are shown only where the doctor's current record supports them. Unverified beard, eyebrow or revision work remains marked with a question mark rather than being inferred from clinic-wide services.
Biography and Medical Education
Dr. Elif Kuzgun Çetinkanat is an Ankara-based cardiovascular surgeon who is also publicly listed as an HLC Hairline Clinic hair-restoration surgeon. The directory preserves both roles to avoid conflating her formal specialty with hair-transplant practice.
Medical directories and a cardiovascular-surgery publication identify Kuzgun Çetinkanat as a cardiovascular surgeon associated with Ankara University and Ankara clinical institutions. Public professional records also identify her at HLC Aesthetic Medical Center in Ankara.
Her LinkedIn record lists Ankara University education and additional training in minimally invasive valve surgery, invasive-radiology radiation safety and field-hospital practice. The available sources do not state a medical-graduation year, so none is inferred.
HLC-facing international material describes Kuzgun as a Manual FUE and body-hair-transplant surgeon. It states that HLC operations are surgeon-only and that all operative steps are performed by qualified surgeons; this is provider-reported clinic policy rather than an independent audit of every case.
Education and career chronology
Current practice and evidence context
CureMeAbroad's HLC profile says Kuzgun works in a surgeon-only model and performs all steps herself. On that provider-reported basis, Supervision, Hairline Design, Channel Opening, Extraction and Implantation are marked verified. This describes the published HLC model and does not independently verify every historical procedure.
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