Prof. Dr. TAHSİN ALİ ZIRH

He was born in Ankara on October 8, 1960. He completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara. He graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine as a medical doctor in 1983.

He fulfilled his mandatory state service in the province of Gaziantep between 1983 and 1985. He began his residency in the Department of Neurosurgery at Marmara University Faculty of Medicine in 1988. He attended training courses organized by the British Council in Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1990; by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) in Warnemünde, Germany (1989), Zaragoza, Spain (1991), Jerusalem, Israel (1992), and Bruges, Belgium (1993); and by the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) in Antalya, Turkey (1994). He participated in clinical studies by visiting the Glasgow Institute of Neurological Sciences in 1990; the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington in 1992; and the Division of Neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital and the Department of Neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1994. He became a neurosurgeon in February 1994. He completed a master's degree in Neurophysiology at Marmara University's Institute of Health Sciences in March 1994. 

In September 1994, in İzmir, Turkey, he completed the fifth training course of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), took the examinations, and obtained the EANS diploma. On the same date, he took and passed the European Board of Neurosurgery Primary Examination. He began his residency in the Department of Neurosurgery at Marmara University Faculty of Medicine in 1988. Upon returning from the United States in 1997 and beginning work at the VKV American Hospital, Ali Zırh performed functional neurosurgical procedures—utilizing the single-cell level microelectrode recording and stimulation technique available at only a select few centers worldwide—as well as deep brain stimulation (brain pacemaker) implantations. By beginning to work at Medical Park Bahçelievler Hospital in January 2009, he implemented these procedures at a healthcare facility accessible to Social Security Institution patients as well.

Surgical procedures have been continuing at Medipol Mega University Hospital since January 2015. As of September 2018, he continues to see patients at the Medipol University Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center (PARMER). Dr. Ali Zırh’s 31 years of clinical and surgical experience in the specialized field of Functional Neurosurgery—comprising over 1,600 successful surgical interventions for Parkinson’s and other movement disorders, as well as more than 2,100 deep brain stimulation (brain pacemaker) procedures—have established him as the foremost name in movement disorder surgery in Turkey, while also elevating the center where he performs these operations to the status of an International Training and Reference Center. Dr. Ali Zırh has numerous publications in international journals, eight book chapters, and more than 150 conference papers.

• 1989 

 The European Association of Neurosurgical Societies European Course in Neurosurgery -

 Warnem, East Germany

 • 1990

 Glasgow and Edinburgh, The British Council Course ""Advances in neurosurgery""

 • 1990

  Glasgow, Scotland, England, Institute of Neurological Sciences 

 • 1991

 Spain Zaragoz- The European Association of Neurosurgical Societies European Course in Neurosurgery

 • 1992

  Israel Jerusalem, The European Association of Neurosurgical Societies European Course in neurosurgery

 • 1992

 Washington DC, USA, Department of Neurosurgery, George Washington University

 • 1992

 Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, Department of Neurosurgery, University

 • 1993

 Belgium Brudge, The European Association of Neurosurgical Societies European Course in neurosurgery

 • 1994

 Türkiye Antalya, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Educational Course

 • 1994

 İzmir, Turkey, The European Association of Neurosurgical Societies European Course in neurosurgery

 • 1994

 Antalya, Turkey, ""Stereotactic Target Calculation"" and ""Neurostimulation for Pain""

 • 1994 

 New-Orleans USA, ""Stereotactic Neurosurgery Hands-On""

 • 1994

 Antalya,Turkey, European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Congress

 ""Basics in Radiosurgery"" Course

 • 1995

 San Francisco USA, ""Augmentative Procedures for Pain""

 • 1995

 New Orleans-USA, ""Stereotactic Neurosurgery Hands-On""

 • 1996

  Minneapolis-USA, ""Deep Brain Stimulation for Treating Parkinson's Disease""

 • 1996 

 Washington-USA, ""Interventional Therapies Workshop: Implantable Spinal Cord

  Stimulation and Drug Infusion Systems""

 • 1996

 Montreal, Canada, ""Surgical Treatment for Movement Disorders""

 • 1996

  Montreal, Canada, ""Interventional Therapies in Chronic Pain Management""

 • 1998

 Lucerne, Switzerland, ""State of the Art in the Use of Intrathecal Therapy for Chronic Pain""

 Course

 • 1999

 Gothenburg, Sweden, ""Training on Spinal Cord Stimulation for Angina Pectoris"" Course

 • 2001

  Kiel, Germany, ""Management of Patients with Deep-Brain Stimulators"" (Expert

 Course and Workshop)

 • 2001

 Istanbul, Turkey, Key Surgeons NEURO/ENT Seminar

 • 2004

 Kuşadası, Turkey, Turkish Neurosurgical Society ""Head Trauma, Pain Management, and Functional

 Neurosurgery"" Course 

 • 2008

 Istanbul, ""Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Practices and Advanced Life Support Course

 Based on European Resuscitation Council (ERC) Guidelines"" 

 • 2009

 Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ""The Advanced DBS Course""

 • 2010

 Athens, Greece, ""Advanced Topics in Neurostimulation"" 

 • 2013 

 Beirut, Lebanon, ""Neuromodulation in CNS: ""Bench to Bedside""

 • 2014

 Fairmont Hotel, Dubai, UAE, Deep Brain Stimulation Expert User Forum

 • 2015

 Samsun, Türkiye, 2nd. International Parkinson's Disease and Deep Brain Stimulation Course