İsmail Hakkı AYDIN, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery, was born in Maçka, Trabzon, Turkey on 1954.
He received his medical degree at the Ataturk University of Erzurum, the fourth oldest University in the Turkey. After graduating from the Medical School, he completed residencies in Neurosurgery in Atatürk, Istanbul and Zurich Universities.
In 1984, he accepted a position at the Ataturk University of Turkey as Ass. Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Neurosurgical Department of Medical School, and received full Professor of Neurosurgery in 1994. His chairmanship in this Department was very active untill 2010. After this time, he transferred his position to a private University in Istanbul.
Professor Aydin, who was the past President of the Nervous Systen Surgery Society, has some neurosurgical thecniques and Sylvian Vein and Cistern Classification were published. For his reason he received more than thirty national and international prestigious awards in Neurosurgery.
He has been very active in clinical and central neurvou system research and contributed to more than 150 clinical neurosurgery, microneurovascular, surgical thecniques and experimental research publications on neuroscience. Also, İsmail Hakkı Aydın is the Honorable and Invited Guest Lecturer of Scientific Congress in the many countries of the World. Meanwhile, Dr. Aydin, who is Musician, Theologist, Calligrapher, Lyricist, Philosophic Writer, and Poet, has published nine printed books (Suz-i Dilara, Aşk, Vuslat, Nefes, Hicran, Rabbim Beni Doktorlardan Koru!, Ya Hayy!, Ah Bu Doktorlar!, Beynin Şifresi, Öfke Kontrolü, Beyin Fırtınası, Ah Bu Hastalar!, Bir Beyin Cerrahının Anıları, Beyin Sizsiniz, Yapay Zeka, Aforizmaları, Ah Bu İnsanlar!, Rubâiyyât-ı Bircis and Düşünce Sizsiniz) in paramedical area.
He is the Editorial Board of many Scientific Journals, and Active Member of more than twenty Neuroscientific Societies, including Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), American Heart Association (AHA) and European Stroke Science Councile. Also, Prof. Dr. Ismail Hakki AYDIN is the International Ambassador of CNS since 1999.