Geboren am 28. Oktober 1964 in Arapgir, Malatya, absolvierte er 1981 die Ankara Halide Edib High School und schloss sein Medizinstudium zwischen 1982 und 1988 an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Ankara University ab.
Fachausbildung und akademischer Werdegang
Seine Facharztausbildung für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe absolvierte er zwischen 1988 und 1993 am Dr. Zekai Tahir Burak Frauenkrankenhaus in Ankara, wo er anschließend als Facharzt und Oberarzt tätig war. 1991 hospitierte er am Cheltenham St. Paul's Maternity Hospital in England. Zwischen 1999 und 2004 promovierte er an der Gazi Üniversitesi im Fach Histologie und Embryologie. Am 26. November 2001 wurde er zum außerordentlichen Professor ernannt, am 21. März 2019 folgte die Berufung zum Professor an der Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften der Çankırı Karatekin University.
Beruflicher Werdegang
Nach seinem Pflichtdienst am Şereflikoçhisar State Hospital in den Jahren 1993-1994 arbeitete er von 1995 bis 1996 am Ankara Sevgi Hospital in der Abteilung für assistierte Reproduktion und reproduktive Endokrinologie und gehörte von 1997 bis 1999 zum Gründungsteam des Zentrums für Frauengesundheit am Ankara City Hospital. 1996 hospitierte er an der IVF-Einheit der University of Florida, 1998 bildete er sich in endoskopischer Chirurgie am Asaf Harofe Hospital in Israel fort. Zwischen 1999 und 2002 war er stellvertretender Leiter des Zentrums für assistierte Reproduktion und Infertilität am Bayındır Hospital; 2002 gründete er das Danış Zentrum für Frauengesundheit.
Im Jahr 2002 gründete er das Ankara IVF Center, das er seit der Lizenzierung des Zentrums im Februar 2003 als Leiter des Zentrums für assistierte Reproduktion, verantwortlicher ärztlicher Direktor sowie wissenschaftlicher und medizinischer Direktor führt. Von 2009 bis 2016 vermittelte er als Ausbildungsleiter des Schulungszentrums für assistierte Reproduktion des Gesundheitsministeriums — des einzigen unabhängigen privaten Ausbildungszentrums dieser Art in der Türkei — 60 Gynäkologinnen und Gynäkologen, Biologen und Embryologen eine zertifizierte Ausbildung in assistierter Reproduktion. 2009 hospitierte er an der Kato Ladies Clinic in Tokio, Japan.
Wissenschaftliche Arbeit
Er hat mehr als 220 Arbeiten und Vorträge veröffentlicht — 46 Artikel in internationalen Fachzeitschriften mit Peer-Review, 30 Beiträge auf internationalen Kongressen, 80 Artikel in nationalen Fachzeitschriften mit Peer-Review und 66 Beiträge auf nationalen Kongressen — sowie 6 Bücher und 2 Buchkapitel. Er hielt 91 eingeladene Vorträge auf wissenschaftlichen Tagungen, wirkte in den wissenschaftlichen Komitees von rund 20 Kongressen mit und nahm an 162 Kongressen und Kursen teil.
Dr. Zekai Tahir Burak Women’s Health Training & Research Hospital
1988 – 1993
Assoc. Professor
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Interuniversity Board of Türkiye
26 Nov 2001
PhD
Histology & Embryology
Gazi University
1999 – 2004
Professor
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Çankırı Karatekin University Faculty of Health Sciences
21 Mar 2019
Beruflicher Werdegang
21 Mar 2019
Çankırı Karatekin University Faculty of Health Sciences — Full Professorship
2009 – 2016
Ministry of Health ART Training Center Director — certified training for 60 specialists and embryologists (2009: observer at Kato Ladies Clinic, Tokyo)
2002 – Present
Ankara IVF Center — Founder (Chairman of the Board); ART Center Director, Medical Director in Charge, Scientific & Medical Director since February 2003
2002
Danış Women’s Health Center (Kavaklıdere, Ankara) — Founder
Wissenschaftliche Publikationen46 international publications
1.Utku Özcan, Kubilay Vicdan, Serdar Oğuz, M. Zeki Taner, Turan Çağlar: Torsion of the normal adnexa in early pregnancy and laparoscopic treatment. Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, 42:5:127-128, 1992
2.Ömer Çobanoğlu, Kubilay Vicdan, Muammer Doğan, Oya Gökmen: Laparoelytrotomy: A case report. Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, 43:3:60-61, 1993
3.Esra Kuşçu, Kubilay Vicdan, Nilgün Ö. Turhan, Serdar Oğuz, Gürkan Zorlu, Oya Gökmen: The hormonal profile in ectopic pregnancies. Materia Medica Polana, 25:3-4:149-152, 1993
4.Eyüp Ekici, Kubilay Vicdan: Uterine myolipoma: Diagnosis by ultrasound. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 42:167-171, 1993
5.Tamer Mungan, Kubilay Vicdan, Hakan Yalçın, Nilgün Turhan: Thyroid function: Fetal-maternal relationship at term. Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, 44:5:104-106, 1994
6.Tuğrul Aydoğdu, Esra Kuşçu, Kubilay Vicdan, Gürkan Zorlu, Ömer Çobanoğlu, Saadet Cengiz: Concomitant squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix and adenocarcinoma of the rectum: A case report. Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, 44:7:173-174, 1994
Bücher & Abschlussarbeiten10 items
Bücher
Practical Guide to Reproductive Medicine (Turkish translation)
Atlas Publishing · 1998
The Laboratory in IVF and Micromanipulation Applications
Kubilay Vicdan, Ahmet Zeki Işık — Çağdaş Kitabevi · 1999
The Johns Hopkins Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics (Turkish translation)
Atlas Publishing · 2000
Handbook for Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility (Turkish translation)
Nobel Publishing · 2003
The Johns Hopkins Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2nd Edition (Turkish translation)
Atlas Publishing · 2004
The Boston IVF Handbook of Infertility (Turkish translation)
Nobel Kitabevi · 2008
Verwaltungs- & Lehrtätigkeiten5 items
Ankara IVF Center — ART Center Director and Medical Director in Charge (2003 – Present)
Ministry of Health ART Training Center at Ankara IVF Center — ART Training Director (2009 – 2016); certified ART training for 60 gynecologists, biologists and embryologists
Ministry of Health ART Science Commission — Member (2008)
Ministry of Health ART Training Centers Oral Examination Jury — Member (2006 – 2015)
Ministry of Health MCH Directorate, Ankara Provincial ART Sub-Commission — Member (2005 – 2006)
Auszeichnungen & Ehrungen7 items
TÜBİTAK Incentive Awards for International Scientific Publications
Dr. Zekai Tahir Burak Women’s Hospital — Certificate of Appreciation, Education Planning Board
5th National Perinatology Congress — 3rd Prize, Poster (Ankara, 1996)
1999 – 2004
Gazi University — PhD in Histology & Embryology; Associate Professor on 26 Nov 2001
1999 – 2002
Bayındır Hospital — Senior Specialist; Deputy Director of the ART & Infertility Center
1997 – 1999
Ankara City Hospital — Founding team of the Women’s Health Center; OB-GYN & ART Center (1998: laparoscopic surgery training at Asaf Harofe Hospital, Israel)
1995 – 1996
Ankara Sevgi Hospital — Specialist in Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Endocrinology (1996: observer at University of Florida IVF Unit, USA)
1994 – 1996
Dr. Zekai Tahir Burak Women’s Hospital — Specialist and Chief Resident (Perinatology: High-Risk Pregnancies, Delivery Room, Antenatal Clinic)
1993 – 1994
Military service (Kayseri Military Hospital) and compulsory service (Şereflikoçhisar State Hospital)
1988 – 1993
Dr. Zekai Tahir Burak Women’s Hospital — Residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology (1991: observer at Cheltenham St. Paul’s Maternity Hospital, UK)
1982 – 1988
Ankara University Faculty of Medicine — Medical education
7.Lale Kutluay, Kubilay Vicdan, Cem Turan, Sertaç Batıoğlu, Serdar Oğuz, Oya Gökmen: Tubal histopathology in ectopic pregnancies. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 57:91-94, 1994
8.Eyüp Ekici, Kubilay Vicdan, Nuri Danışman: Ultrasonographic appearance of cystic uterine leiomyoma. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 47:171-172, 1994
9.Cem Turan, Kubilay Vicdan, Oya Gökmen: The treatment of Bartholin’s cysts and abscess with silver nitrate. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 48:317-318, 1995
10.Mahmut Sağlamtaş, Kubilay Vicdan, Hakan Yalçın, Zarif Yılmaz, Hüseyin Yeşilyurt, Oya Gökmen: Rupture of pregnant uterus: Incidence, maternal and fetal mortality and etiologic factors. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 49:9-15, 1995
11.Eyüp Ekici, Kubilay Vicdan, Nuri Danışman, M. Emin Soysal, Ömer Çobanoğlu, Oya Gökmen: Ultrasonographic appearance of fallopian tube carcinoma. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 49:325-329, 1995
12.Kubilay Vicdan, Zerrin Gökay, Turgut Var, Nuri Danışman, Oya Gökmen: Twin sisters with impetigo herpetiformis. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 63:195-196, 1995
13.Kubilay Vicdan, Selahattin Kükner, Tülin Dabakoğlu, Tolga Ergin, Gürhan Keleş, Oya Gökmen: Demographic and epidemiologic features of female adolescents in Turkey. Journal of Adolescent Health, 18:54-58, 1996
14.Eyüp Ekici, Kubilay Vicdan, Hale Dayan, Nuri Danışman, Oya Gökmen: Reverse end-diastolic uterine artery velocity in a pregnant woman complicated by mild preeclampsia and severe growth retardation. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 66:79-82, 1996
15.Kubilay Vicdan, Levent Alaybeyoğlu, Serdar Oğuz, Eyüp Ekici, Oya Gökmen: Ultrasonographic appearance of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a pregnant woman. Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation, 41:284-285, 1996
16.Mustafa Uğur, Cem Turan, Kubilay Vicdan, Eyüp Ekici, Özlem Oğuz, Oya Gökmen: Chronic ectopic pregnancy: A clinical analysis of 62 cases. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 36:2:1-4, 1996
17.Cem Turan, Mustafa Uğur, Muammer Doğan, Eyüp Ekici, Kubilay Vicdan, Oya Gökmen: Transvaginal sonographic findings of chronic ectopic pregnancy. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 67:115-119, 1996
18.Kubilay Vicdan, Turgut Var, Nuri Danışman, Oya Gökmen: The utility of sequential testing using the ratio of surfactant to albumin and lamellar body counts in amniotic fluid for assessing fetal lung maturity. Journal of Maternal Fetal Investigations, 6:136-141, 1996
19.Semra Kahraman, Murat Taşdemir, Işık Taşdemir, Kubilay Vicdan, Suat Özgür, Gurur Polat, Ahmet Zeki Işık, Kutay Biberoğlu, Pierre Vanderzwalmen, Martine Nijs, Robert Schoysman: Pregnancies achieved with testicular and ejaculated spermatozoa in combination with intracytoplasmic sperm injection in men with totally or initially immotile spermatozoa in the ejaculate. Human Reproduction, 11:6:1343-1346, 1996
20.Semra Kahraman, Ahmet Zeki Işık, Kubilay Vicdan, Suat Özgür, Osman D. Özgün: A healthy birth after intracytoplasmic sperm injection by using immotile testicular spermatozoa in a case with totally immotile ejaculated spermatozoa before and after Percoll gradients. Human Reproduction, 12:2:292-293, 1997
21.Semra Kahraman, Kubilay Vicdan, Ahmet Zeki Işık, Osman D. Özgün, Levent Alaybeyoğlu, Gurur Polat, Kutay Biberoğlu: Clomiphene citrate challenge test in the assessment of ovarian reserve before controlled ovarian hyperstimulation for intracytoplasmic sperm injection. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 73:177-182, 1997
22.Semra Kahraman, Kubilay Vicdan, Alp Nuhoğlu, Nuri Danışman, Ahmet Zeki Işık, Osman D. Özgün, Kutay Biberoğlu: Outcomes of multifetal pregnancy reduction in multiple pregnancies achieved by intracytoplasmic sperm injection using ejaculated, testicular or epididymal sperm. Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation, 44:1-5, 1997
23.Kubilay Vicdan, Semra Kahraman, Ahmet Zeki Işık: The predictive value of a single early beta human chorionic gonadotropin level in pregnancies achieved by intracytoplasmic sperm injection. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 59:2:139-140, 1997
24.Ahmet Zeki Işık, Semra Kahraman, Kubilay Vicdan, Levent Alaybeyoğlu, Osman D. Özgün, Gurur Polat, Kutay Biberoğlu: Intravenous albumin combined with low dose hCG and late step-down administration of menotropins in prevention of severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome in high risk IVF patients. Middle East Fertility Society Journal, 2:3:238-242, 1997
25.Eyüp Ekici, Kubilay Vicdan, Muammer Doğan: Bizarre blood flow detected by colour Doppler ultrasonography in ectopic pregnancies. Singapore Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 28:2-3:12-15, 1997
26.Ahmet Zeki Işık, Kubilay Vicdan, Levent Alaybeyoğlu: Does IV albumin prevent severe ovarian hyperstimulation? (Letter to the Editor). Fertility and Sterility, 69:2:356, 1998
27.Kubilay Vicdan: The value of maternal serum creatine kinase in the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy (Letter to the Editor). Human Reproduction, 13:7:2033-2037, 1998
28.Kubilay Vicdan, Ahmet Zeki Işık: Low day 3 luteinizing hormone values are predictive of reduced response to ovarian stimulation (Letter to the Editor). Human Reproduction, 14:3:863-864, 1999
29.Kubilay Vicdan, Ahmet Zeki Işık: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection is not associated with poor outcome in couples with normal semen parameters and previous idiopathic fertilization failure in conventional IVF. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 87:87-90, 1999
30.Kubilay Vicdan, Ahmet Zeki Işık, Halime Gül Dağlı, Ayten Kaba, Hüsnü Kişnişçi: Fertilization and development of a blastocyst-stage embryo after selective intracytoplasmic sperm injection of a mature oocyte from a binovular zona pellucida: A case report. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, 16:7:355-357, 1999
31.Ahmet Zeki Işık, Kubilay Vicdan: Borderline form of empty follicle syndrome: Is it really an entity? European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 88:213-215, 2000
32.Ahmet Zeki Işık, Kubilay Vicdan, Ayten Kaba, Halime Gül Dağlı: Comparison of zona manipulated and zona intact blastocyst transfer: A prospective randomized trial. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, 17:3:135-139, 2000
33.Mehmet Emin Soysal, Seyide Soysal, Kubilay Vicdan: Thermal balloon ablation in myoma-induced menorrhagia under local anesthesia. Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation, 51:2:128-133, 2001
34.Mehmet Emin Soysal, Seyide Soysal, Kubilay Vicdan: Laparoscopically assisted definitive treatment of severe endometriosis. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 72:2:191-192, 2001
35.Soysal ME, Soysal S, Vicdan K, Özer S: A randomized controlled trial of goserelin and medroxyprogesterone acetate in the treatment of pelvic congestion. Human Reproduction, 16(5):931-939, 2001
36.Kubilay Vicdan, Ahmet Zeki Işık: Luteal phase hormonal profile in the prediction of pregnancy and its outcome in assisted reproductive technologies. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 96:1:98-101, 2001
37.Kubilay Vicdan, Ahmet Zeki Işık, Lale Delilbaşı: Development of blastocyst-stage embryos after round spermatid injection in patients with complete spermiogenesis failure. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, 18(2):78-86, 2001
38.Ahmet Zeki Işık, Kubilay Vicdan: Combined approach as an effective method in the prevention of severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 97:208-212, 2001
39.Arzu Vicdan, Kubilay Vicdan, Serdar Günalp, Aykut Kence, Cem Akarsu, Ahmet Zeki Işık, Eran Sözen: Genetic aspects of human male infertility: The frequency of chromosomal abnormalities and Y chromosome microdeletions in severe male factor infertility. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 117(1):49-54, 2004
40.Kubilay Vicdan, Ahmet Zeki Işık, Cem Akarsu, Eran Sözen, Gamze Çağlar, Bihter Dingiloğlu, Görkem Tuncay: The effect of retained embryos on pregnancy outcome in an in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer program. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 134:79-82, 2007
41.Enver Kerem Dirican, Ahmet Zeki Işık, Kubilay Vicdan, Eran Orhan Sözen, Zekiye Suludere: Clinical pregnancies and livebirths achieved by intracytoplasmic injection of round headed acrosomeless spermatozoa with and without oocyte activation in familial globozoospermia: Case report. Asian Journal of Andrology, 10(2):332-336, 2008
42.Cem Akarsu, Gamze Çağlar, Kubilay Vicdan, Ahmet Zeki Işık, Görkem Tuncay: Pregnancies achieved by testicular sperm recovery in male hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with persistent azoospermia. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 18(4):455-459, 2009
43.Cem Akarsu, Gamze Çağlar, Kubilay Vicdan, Eran Sözen, Kutay Biberoğlu: Smooth endoplasmic reticulum aggregations in all retrieved oocytes causing recurrent multiple anomalies: Case report. Fertility and Sterility, 2009
44.AZ Işık, GS Çağlar, E Sözen, C Akarsu, G Tuncay, T Özbiçer, K Vicdan: Single dose GnRH agonist administration in the luteal phase of GnRH antagonist cycles: A prospective randomised study. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 19:4:472-477, 2009
45.Kubilay Vicdan, Cem Akarsu, Arzu Vicdan, Eran Sözen, Burcu Buluç, Kutay Biberoğlu: Birth of a healthy boy using fresh testicular sperm in a patient with Klinefelter syndrome combined with Kartagener syndrome. Fertility and Sterility, 96:3:577-579, 2011
46.Kubilay Vicdan, Cem Akarsu, Eran Sözen, Burcu Buluç, Arzu Vicdan, Yıldırım, Yılmaz, Kutay Biberoğlu: The outcome of intracytoplasmic sperm injection using fresh and cryopreserved-thawed testicular spermatozoa in 83 azoospermic men with Klinefelter syndrome. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, 42:11:1558-1566, 2016
Assisted Reproductive Techniques from A to Z — chapter “Embryo Transfer Technique”
Book chapter · Cem Akarsu, Kubilay Vicdan — Palme Publishing · 2009
Yen & Jaffe Reproductive Endocrinology — “Reproductive Immunology and Its Disorders” (translation of Chapter 13)
Book chapter · Kubilay Vicdan, Arzu Vicdan
Abschlussarbeiten
Demographic and Epidemiologic Features of Adolescents in Turkey: Current Problems and Solutions
Specialty thesis in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ankara · 1993
Testicular ultrastructure in mice fed estrogen-rich and estrogen-free diets
PhD thesis in Histology & Embryology, Ankara · 2004
1st International Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics — 1st Prize, Poster (Antalya, 1996)
6th Course on Basic Diagnosis and Treatment in Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology — 2nd Prize, Poster (Ankara, 1998)
8th Course on Basic Diagnosis and Treatment in Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology — 3rd Prize (Antalya, 2000)
5th National Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics — 10th Place Award (Antalya, 2006)
A PART — Association of Private Assisted Reproductive Technologies (since 1999)
Turkish IVF Centers Association (Secretary General 2006-2008, President 2008-2012)