Spec. MD. Ahmet Kuru

Education and Specialization

• 2014 - Bachelor's degree in Medicine, Ankara University
  
• 2019 - Specialist degree in Radiation Oncology, Dokuz Eylül University

Experience

• 2014 - General Practitioner, Aksaray Training and Research Hospital
  
• 2015-2019 - Research Assistant, Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology
  
• 2020-2021 - Specialist Doctor, Elazığ Fethi Sekin City Hospital, Radiation Oncology Clinic
  
• 2021-2023 - Specialist Doctor, Medical Park Elazığ Hospital, Radiation Oncology Clinic

Courses and Certifications

• Basic Occupational Health and Safety Training Certificate, March 24 – May 30, 2016
  
• Dokuz Eylül University, Laboratory Animal Use Certificate, March 19-30, 2018
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology (TROD) Competency Certificate, October 26, 2020

Courses Attended

• Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Education Board – "Access to Information Sources" Course, October 26, 2015
  
• European Society for Radiation Oncology – "Paediatric Radiation Oncology" Teaching Course, November 19-21, 2015, Izmir
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "Contour-2" Course, November 28-29, 2015
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "Best of ASTRO" Course, January 9-10, 2016
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "Basic Radiation Therapy Physics for Clinicians" Course, December 3-4, 2016, Istanbul
  
• Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Education Board – "Research, Planning, and Analysis" Course, January 16-18, 2017
  
• Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Education Board – "Applied Statistical Analysis in Health" Course, March 22-23, 2017
  
• Turkish Pediatric Oncology Group – "Pediatric Solid Tumors" Course, March 25, 2017, Izmir
  
• Turkish Lung Cancer Society – "Communication with Cancer Patients" Course, April 1, 2017
  
• Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Education Board – "Evidence-Based Medicine" Course, April 5, 2017
  
• National Cancer Congress – "Management of Side Effects of New Drugs and New Technologies" Course, April 19, 2017
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "Radiation Therapy Technicians Knowledge Refreshing-3" Course, May 13, 2017
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "Contour" Course, May 13, 2017
  
• Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Education Board – "Evidence-Based Medicine (Critical Evaluation of Diagnostic Articles)" Course, May 26, 2017
  
• European Society for Radiation Oncology – "Clinical Practice and Implementation of Image-Guided Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy" Teaching Course, September 3-7, 2017, Budapest-Hungary
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "Radioimmunochemotherapy Applications" Course, October 14, 2017
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "Radiobiology" Course, November 11-12, 2017
  
• Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Education Board – "Research and Publication Ethics" Course, November 16, 2017
  
• Head and Neck Thyroid Surgery ENT School, November 23, 2017
  
• Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Education Board – "Critical Evaluation of Treatment Articles" Course, March 7, 2018
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "Normal Tissue and Contouring (ASTRO International e-Contouring)" Course, March 17, 2018
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "Not in Planning, but in My Outpatient Clinic" Course, April 27, 2018
  
• Varian Medical Systems International AG Oncology Information System and Eclipse Upgrade Training, December 17-18, 2018, Izmir
  
• National Cancer Congress – "Oncology and Nutrition" Course, April 17, 2019
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "TROD Workshop-2 Craniospinal Radiotherapy" Course, May 29, 2019
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "Stereotactic Radiation Therapy" Course, October 12, 2019
  
• European Society for Radiation Oncology – "Evidence-Based Radiation Oncology" Virtual Course, February 22 – March 5, 2021
  
• Gemini Information Technologies – "ELSEVIER Clinical Key & UpToDate" Online Education Meeting, August 5, 2021
  
• ESPEN Life-Long Learning Programme on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism – "Presentation and Publication Skills" LLL Course, September 7-14, 2021
  
• ESPEN Life-Long Learning Programme on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism – "Nutrition Support in Liver and Pancreatic Disease" LLL Course, September 7-14, 2021
  
• ESPEN Life-Long Learning Programme on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism – "Nutritional Support in Cancer" LLL Course, September 7-14, 2021
  
• ESPEN Life-Long Learning Programme on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism – "Nutritional Support in Neurological Diseases" LLL Course, September 7-14, 2021
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology – "TROD Basic Biostatistics" Course, October 9-10, 2021

Professional Memberships

• Turkish Medical Association (TMA) - Mersin Chamber of Medicine
  
• Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology (TROD)
  
• Turkish Pediatric Oncology Society (TPOD)
  
• Turkish Lung Cancer Society (TAKD)
  
• Turkish Neuro-Oncology Society (TNOD)
  
• Clinical Enteral Parenteral Nutrition (KEPAN) Society
  
• European Society of Radiation Oncology (ESTRO)
  
• European Society of Parenteral Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN)

A. Articles published in international peer-reviewed journals:

• Arıcan Alıcıkuş LZ, Kuru A, Aydın B, Akçay D, Görken İ. "The importance of mesorectum motion in determining PTV margins in rectal cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant radiotherapy.", J Radiat Res., 61(2):335-342 / 2020, 2020.
• Oguz Cetinayak, Ersoy Doğan, Ahmet Kuru, Nesrin Aktürk, Barbaros Aydın, Cenk Umay, İlhami Er, Fadime Akman. "Outcome of Early-Stage Glottic Laryngeal Carcinoma Patients Treated with Radical Radiotherapy Using Different Techniques", Journal of Oncology, Volume 2019, Article ID 8640549, 9 pages, 2019.

B. Papers Presented at International Scientific Meetings (Published in Proceedings)

B1. Oral Presentations

• Arıcan Alıcıkuş LZ, Kuru A, Aydın B, Akçay D, Görken İ. Importance of mesorectum movement for determining PTV margins in rectal cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant radiotherapy. Strahlentherapie und Onkologie, 2017; 193: S34. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Radionkologie (DEGRO), Germany, June 2017.

B2. Poster Presentations

• Öksel A, İnce D, Kızmazoğlu D, Kızmazoğlu C, Demiral AN, Çetingöz ER, Kuru A, Güleryüz H, Özer E, Olgun HN. Embryonal Tumors of the Central Nervous System: Single Center Treatment Experience. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 66 Suppl 4:e27989. 51st Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology, France, October 2019.

Papers Presented at National Scientific Meetings (Published in Proceedings)

E1. Oral Presentations

• Hasan Oğuz Çetinayak, Ersoy Doğan, Barbaros Aydın, Nesrin Aktürk, Ahmet Kuru, Sülen Sarıoğlu, Ahmet Ömer İkiz, Fadime Akman. Radical Radiotherapy Outcomes and Evaluation of Prognostic Factors in 307 Early-Stage Laryngeal Carcinoma Patients. XII National Radiation Oncology Congress, Antalya, April 2016.

• Oğuz Çetinayak, Cenk Umay, Barbaros Aydın, Nesrin Aktürk, İlhami Er, Meltem Kırlı, Ahmet Kuru, Aydın Şanlı, Işıl Somalı, Duygu Gürel, Eyüp Sabri Uçan, Emine Osma, Nezih Özdemir, Ayşe Nur Demiral, Rıza Çetingöz. Radiotherapy Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in 36 Patients with Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma. VII National Lung Cancer Congress, Antalya, November 2016.

• Barbaros Aydın, Nesrin Aktürk, Cenk Umay, Oğuz Çetinayak, İlhami Er, Ahmet Kuru, Rıza Çetingöz. Effect of a Second Course of Whole-Brain Irradiation on Palliation in Lung Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases. VII National Lung Cancer Congress, Antalya, November 2016.

• İlknur Bilkay Görken, Zümre Arıcan Alıcıkuş, Barbaros Aydın, Nesrin Aktürk, Ahmet Kuru, Selman Sökmen, Mehtat Ünlü, Işıl Somalı, Funda Obuz, Mehmet Füzun, Hilmi Alanyalı. Long-Term Treatment Outcomes in Rectal Cancer Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy: Dokuz Eylül Colorectal Cancer Group (DEKRKG). 22nd National Cancer Congress, Antalya, April 2017.

• Oğuz Çetinayak, Ersoy Doğan, Ahmet Kuru, Nesrin Aktürk, Barbaros Aydın, Cenk Umay, İlhami Er, Fadime Akman. Prognostic Factors in Early-Stage Glottic Laryngeal Carcinoma Treated with Different Radiotherapy Techniques. XIII National Radiation Oncology Congress, TRNC, April 2018.

• Cenk Umay, Barbaros Aydın, Ahmet Kuru, Oğuz Çetinayak, Nesrin Aktürk, İlhami Er, Şeyda Kınay, Süleyman Men, Ercan Özer, Fadime Akman. Early Outcomes of Intracranial Benign Tumors Treated with FFF Energy and VMAT Technique (SRC/SRT). XIII National Radiation Oncology Congress, TRNC, April 2018.

• Barbaros Aydın, Nesrin Aktürk, Cenk Umay, Oğuz Çetinayak, İlhami Er, Ahmet Kuru, Rıza Çetingöz. Effect of a Second Course of Whole-Brain Irradiation on Palliation in Lung Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases. VIII National Lung Cancer Congress, Bodrum, October 2018.

• Cenk Umay, Ahmet Kuru, İlhami Er, İlknur Bilkay Görken, Fadime Akman, Ayşe Nur Demiral, Emrullah Rıza Çetingöz. Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Outcomes for Pulmonary Nodules in Metastatic Cancer. 23rd National Cancer Congress, Antalya, April 2019.

• Cenk Umay, Ahmet Kuru, İlhami Er, Ayşe Nur Demiral, Emrullah Rıza Çetingöz. Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Outcomes in Early-Stage Lung Cancer. 23rd National Cancer Congress, Antalya, April 2019.

• Ali Öksel, Dilek İnce, Deniz Kızmazoğlu, Ceren Kızmazoğlu, Ayşe Demiral, Rıza Çetingöz, Ahmet Kuru, Handan Güleryüz, Erdener Özer, Nur Olgun. Treatment Experience in Embryonal Tumors of the Central Nervous System. 23rd National Cancer Congress, Antalya, April 2019.

• Emine Sedef Akovalı, Didem Çolpan Öksüz, Tuba Kurt Çatal, Zümre Arıcan Alıcıkuş, Ahmet Kuru, Cenk Ahmet Şen, Melek Akçay, Zeynep Güral, Aysel Ahmadova, Züleyha Akgün, İlknur Bilkay Görken. Radiochemotherapy Outcomes in Esophageal Cancer: TROD Gastrointestinal Oncology Group Study. TROD Virtual Congress, November 2020.

• Ahmet Kuru, Cenk Umay, Aylin Erol, Özde Elif Gökbayrak, Meryem Çalışır, Şeyda Kınay, Osman Yılmaz, Safiye Aktaş, Rıza Çetingöz. Investigation of the Apoptotic Effect of Hypofractionated Radiotherapy with Different Fractions in a Lung Cancer Mouse Model. XIV National Radiation Oncology Congress, Antalya, November 2021.

E2. Poster Presentations

• Oğuz Çetinayak, Fatma Demir Yenigürbüz, İlhami Er, Ahmet Kuru, Cenk Umay, Rıza Çetingöz, Nur Olgun, Kamer Mutafoğlu, Ayşe Nur Demiral. Treatment Outcomes in Children with Wilms Tumor Receiving Radiotherapy to the Primary Tumor Site. XII National Radiation Oncology Congress, Antalya, April 2016.

• Nesrin Aktürk, Barbaros Aydın, Oğuz Çetinayak, Doğukan Akçay, Cenk Umay, Seray Kurt, Meltem Kırlı, Ahmet Kuru, Fadime Akman. Radical Radiotherapy with Volumetric Arc Therapy in Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancers: Early Results. XII National Radiation Oncology Congress, Antalya, April 2016.

• Barbaros Aydın, Nesrin Aktürk, Cenk Umay, Oğuz Çetinayak, İlhami Er, Ahmet Kuru, Rıza Çetingöz. Effect of a Second Course of Whole-Brain Irradiation on Palliation in Lung Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases. 22nd National Cancer Congress, April 2017.

• Lütfiye Zümre Arıcan Alıcıkuş, Nesrin Aktürk, Barbaros Aydın, Ahmet Kuru, Mehtat Ünlü, Aras Emre Canda, Funda Obuz, İlknur Bilkay Görken. Do Neutrophil/Lymphocyte and Platelet/Lymphocyte Ratios Predict Survival in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy? 22nd National Cancer Congress, April 2017.

• Lütfiye Zümre Arıcan Alıcıkuş, Nesrin Aktürk, Ahmet Kuru, Barbaros Aydın, Sülen Sarıoğlu, İlknur Bilkay Görken. Impact of Pre-Radiotherapy and Pre-Surgical Neutrophil/Lymphocyte and Platelet/Lymphocyte Ratios on Survival in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer. 22nd National Cancer Congress, April 2017.

• Oğuz Çetinayak, Cenk Umay, Barbaros Aydın, Nesrin Aktürk, İlhami Er, Meltem Kırlı, Ahmet Kuru, Aydın Şanlı, Işıl Somalı, Duygu Gürel, Eyüp Sabri Uçan, Emine Osma, Nezih Özdemir, Ayşe Nur Demiral, Rıza Çetingöz. Radiotherapy Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in 36 Patients with Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma. 22nd National Cancer Congress, April 2017.

• Cenk Umay, İlhami Er, Yüksel Olgun, Ahmet Kuru, Nesrin Aktürk, Barbaros Aydın, Oğuz Çetinayak, Fadime Akman. Prognostic Factors in Oropharyngeal Cancers Treated with Different Radiotherapy Techniques. XIII National Radiation Oncology Congress, TRNC, April 2018.

• Barbaros Aydın, İlhami Er, Oğuz Çetinayak, Cenk Umay, Nesrin Aktürk, Ahmet Kuru, Doğukan Akçay, Zümre Arıcan Alıcıkuş, Ayşe Nur Demiral, Fadime Akman. Feasibility of Stereotactic Radiotherapy Using Flattening-Filter-Free Energies and Volumetric Arc Therapy in Metastatic Cancer. XIII National Radiation Oncology Congress, TRNC, April 2018.