Prof. Dr. Ahmet KARAGÖZ
Department of Cardiology
Education: Prof. Dr. Ahmet KARAGÖZ was born in Samsun in 1982 and graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 2006. He completed his cardiology specialization in Ankara Numune Hospital Cardiology Clinic in 2011. He was appointed as an assistant professor at Giresun University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology in 2014 and received the title of associate professor of cardiology in 2016. He undertook the duties of Giresun University Faculty of Medicine Cardiology Department Head and Clinical Administrative Responsible. Receiving the title of Professor from Giresun University on 14.06.2021, Dr. Ahmet KARAGÖZ was appointed as Professor Doctor to Samsun University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology on 25.07.2022.
Research Areas: Prof. Dr. Ahmet KARAGÖZ has carried out many academic activities at home and abroad. From 2011-2013, he worked as a field researcher for the Heart Disease and Risk Factors in Turkish Adults (TEKHARF) project. He gave lectures at the Faculty of Medicine at Ostrava University (Czech Republic) in 2015 and received training on cardiac resynchronization therapy implantation techniques at DRK Kliniken Berlin Köpenick Hospital (Germany) in 2017. He took part as a speaker at the Complex Cardiovascular Catheter Therapeutics, Advanced Endovascular and Coronary Intervention Global Summit (C3) conferences held in Orlando (United States) in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. He has also served as a panelist, speaker, and session chair in many national and international meetings. European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA), European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR), European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI), European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) He is an active member of many national and international scientific organizations such as the Heart Failure Association (HFA) Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), the Turkish Society of Cardiology, and the Cardiovascular Academy Association. In 2021, he was selected as a fellow of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, one of the world’s leading interventional cardiology associations. He has many national and international studies on the epidemiology of heart diseases, new experimental approaches in the treatment of heart failure, coronary and peripheral vascular diseases, rhythm disorders, and interventional treatment of heart failure. Complex coronary interventions such as chronic total occlusion, bifurcation procedures, peripheral vascular interventions, cardiac resynchronization therapy, pacemaker and ICD implantation, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVI) are of special interest.
Selected Works: He has a total of 40 studies, 9 of which are first titles, published within the scope of SCI-Expanded. 30 of these works are clinical studies, 6 of which are the first names. The mentioned works have been cited more than 400 times by the articles published in journals within the scope of SCI-Expanded. In addition, he has 10 articles, 1 of which is a clinical study, published in other international peer-reviewed journals, and 25 articles, 10 of which are clinical studies, published in national peer-reviewed journals. He has over a hundred oral and poster presentations presented at national and international scientific congresses. His main works are; “Karagöz A, Uçar Ö, Kutucularoglu MG, Vural M, Diker E. Multidetector computed tomographic anatomy of the coronary sinus in patients with supraventricular reentrant tachycardia. Cardiol Pol. 2013;71(9):911-6. doi: 10.5603/KP.2013.0225.”, “Karagöz A, Vural A, Günaydın ZY, Bektaş O, Gül M, Çelik A, Uzunoğlu E, Usta S, Sarıtaş A, Elalmış ÖU. The role of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of diastolic dysfunction in hypertensive patients. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2015;19(3):433-40.”, “Karagöz A, Kesici S, Vural A, Usta M, Tezcan B, Semerci T, Teker E. Cardioprotective effects of Viscum album L. ssp. album (Loranthaceae) on isoproterenol-induced heart failure via regulation of the nitric oxide pathway in rats. Anatol J Cardiol. 2016 Dec;16(12):923-930. doi: 10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2016.6780.”, “Karagöz A, Günaydın ZY, Bektaş O, Benli E, Kaya A. Subclinical left ventricular deterioration in patients with erectile dysfunction. Acta Cardiol. 2016;71(5):557-563. doi: 10.2143/AC.71.5.3167499.”, “Karagöz A, Onat A, Aydın M, Can G, Şimşek B, Yüksel M. Distinction of hypertriglyceridemic waist phenotype from simple abdominal obesity: interaction with sex hormone-binding globulin levels to confer high coronary risk. Postgrad Med. 2017 Mar;129(2):288-295. doi: 10.1080/00325481.2017.1261608.”
Office: Samsun Health Application and Research Center (Samsun Training and Research Hospital)
e-mail: ahmet.karagoz@samsun.edu.tr
Tel: +90 (362) 311 15 00