Doç. Dr. Elif Ceren Yeşilkaya

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elif Ceren Yeşilkaya graduated from Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine in 2011. She completed her ophthalmology residency at Beyoğlu Eye Training and Research Hospital in 2017 and went on to focus on cataract, cornea and refractive surgery.

She did her compulsory service at Adıyaman Gölbaşı State Hospital from 2017 to 2020, performing close to a thousand cataract operations along with eyelid, tear duct and strabismus surgery. From 2021 to 2024 she ran the Cornea and Anterior Segment and the Oculoplastics units at Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital, worked as the physician responsible for corneal transplants and taught cataract surgery to residents.

Abroad, she trained in oculoplastic surgery at the Royal Free Hospital in London and in corneal transplantation with Dr. Berthold Seitz at Saarland University in Germany. She completed the Refractive Surgery Alliance fellowship programme. Since 2024 she has been seeing patients at Medicana Zincirlikuyu Hospital.