Honors in Medicine

1975 - American Society of Plastic Surgery Foundation Scholarship Essay Contest Honorable Mention Junior Classification.

1976 - Fellowship Award from the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey.

1978 - American Society of Plastic Surgery Foundation Essay Contest First Prize Senior Classification.

1978 - National Institute of Health (NIH) Grant Award $75,000 Co-investigator of the project "Free Flap Trachea and Esophageal Reconstruction".

1978 - Baylor College of Medicine Research Scholarship $3,000 The project "Latissimus Dorsi Myocutaneous Flaps".

1979 - Baylor College of Medicine Research Scholarship $3,000 "Comparative Diagnostic Techniques in Different Types of Trauma".

1979 - National Institute of Health (NIH) Grant Award $150,000. Co investigator of the project "A New Method Using Omentum to Reconstruct Deformities".

1979 - American Cancer Society Grant Award $75,000 Co investigator of the project "Breast Reconstruction with Secondary Omental Island Skin Flap".

1981 - Medical Science Award of Sedat Simavi Foundation.

1999 - Best Contributor to Positive Science "Top 10 Contributors in 10 Fields" Aktüel Magazine, Turkey.

2001 - Best Plastic Surgeon. Radikal Newspaper, Turkey

2007 - "The Maliniac Lecturer" ASPS, PSEF