Mustafa KARAKAN

mkarakan@prizmamed.com.tr

I was born in Tarsus, Mersin, in October 1968 and completed my primary and secondary education in Tarsus. I began studying medicine at Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine in 1985 and graduated in 1991. Between 1991 and 1994, I completed my compulsory service in Pasinler, Erzurum.

In 1994, I began my residency in Anesthesiology and Reanimation at Gaziantep University Faculty of Medicine. During my residency, I was trained in intensive care and pain management as well as anesthesiology. I completed my specialization in 1998 with a thesis on combined spinal-epidural anesthesia, a regional anesthesia technique.

In 1999, I started working as a specialist at Av. Cengiz Gökçek State Hospital in Gaziantep. In the same period, I opened Ağrımer, the region’s first private anesthesia and pain center. I later worked at Gaziantep 75. Yıl Maternity Hospital and focused on obstetric anesthesia and analgesia in private hospitals in Gaziantep.

In 2003, I founded Prizma Med Sağlık Hizmetleri.

From 2005 to 2013, I worked at the Anesthesiology and Reanimation Clinic of SEV American Hospital. In 2006, together with Dr. M. Ali Elmacıoğlu, I founded the “Pain (Algology)-Anesthesia” outpatient clinic. During this period, I attended courses, training programs and congresses of the World Institute of Pain (WIP) and the Turkish Algology Association, gained experience in interventional pain treatments and presented my work at national and international pain congresses.

Since 2008, I have been working in the field of complementary medicine. I attended courses, symposia and congresses of the Scientific Neural Therapy Association (BNR), the Scientific Complementary Medicine and Regulation Medicine Association, the Scientific Acupuncture and Regulation Association, the Internationale medizinische Gesellschaft für Neuraltherapie nach Huneke (IGNH) and ozone therapy associations, and presented my work at these meetings. Following the nomination of Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Nazlıkul, the founder of neural therapy in Türkiye, and the decision of the board, I have served as a trainer at the Neural Therapy Association since 2011. I am a member of the Scientific Committee of BARNAT, the Journal of Scientific Complementary Medicine, Regulation and Neural Therapy.

In 2013, I left my hospital position in anesthesiology and reanimation, and in 2014 I established my private clinic. I currently see patients at my private practice in Çayyolu, Ankara. I also serve as President of the Anatolian Neural Therapy and Osteopathy Association and teach neural therapy to physicians at various congresses and events.

Personal website: www.drmustafakarakan.net