Professor Doctor Ali Rıza ODABAŞ
He was born in 1966 in Mesudiye Ordu. He graduated from Atatürk University of Medicine in 1989. After a short period of compulsory service, he became a specialist in İstanbul Medicine Faculty of internal medicine clinic of İstanbul University. He completed his internship specialization in 1996 which he started in 1990. The field of basic sciences of Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in Medical Sciences (FMGEMS) exams passed in 1992, and the field of clinical sciences passed in 1993.
During his specialization, he was in experimental researches at İstanbul Medical Faculty Experimental Medical Research Center Immunology and Diabetes laboratories. He started to work as an assistant professor in Atatürk University Medical Faculty Nephrology Clinic in february 1999. He became an associate professor in march 2003.
Between 2005 and 2009 he carried out the clinical chief Ministry of Health Ankara Numune Educational Research Hospital Nephrology and also between 2009 and 2011 he carried out the clinical chief of the Ministry of Health Göztepe Educational Research Hospital Nephrology. In 2011 he was appointed professor at İstanbul Medeniyet University Medical Faculty’s Internal Medicine Clinic. Between 2011 and 2012, he served as the chief physcian of Göztepe Educational Researh Hospital, the same university hospital. Between November 2013 and September 2014, he served as hospital manager at the same hospital. Since January 2015, he assumed the role of hospital manager again. Since 2007, he has been a Member of the Dialysis Scientific Advisory Board of the Ministry of Health and since 2012 he has been a member of the renal transplant scientific advisary board.