Prof. Dr. Kemal Memişoğlu
Prof. Dr. Kemal Memişoğlu, originally from Rize, was born in Trabzon in 1966. He graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1990 and received his General Surgery Specialization from Istanbul Okmeydanı Training Hospital in 1995.
Between 1996 and 1998, he worked as a General Surgeon at SSK Konya Ereğli Hospital, PTT Hospital, and Bursa Military Hospital. From 1999 to 2000, he worked at the University of Miami in the Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation Unit. Between 2000 and 2002, he served as Chief Resident in the Department of General Surgery at Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine.
At the end of 2002, he was appointed as Chief Physician of PTT Hospital and became an Associate Professor of General Surgery in 2008. He completed his Master’s Degree in Health Management at Beykent University, which he began in 2007, in 2009. He served as the Chief Physician of Istanbul Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital for ten years.
In November 2012, he was appointed as the Head of Medical Services at the Istanbul Northern Anatolian Public Hospitals Union General Secretariat, and in May 2014, he became the Secretary General of the same union. In 2016, he was appointed as a Professor in the Department of General Surgery at the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Health Practice and Research Center (SUAM) of the University of Health Sciences. Since October 2016, he had been serving as the Istanbul Provincial Health Director, and on July 2, 2024, he was appointed as the Minister of Health.
Prof. Dr. Kemal Memişoğlu is married and has three children.