Dr. Yaman Tokat received his medical degree (M.D.) and residency in General Surgery from Ege University School of Medicine in Izmir, Turkey. He had completed his fellowship training at different clinics (Baylor College of Medicine/Houston, University of Texas /Houston; Mayo Clinic / Rochester) He successfully completed his liver transplantation training in Cambridge University /Cambridge.
In 1994, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of General Surgery at Ege University School of Medicine and in 2002 became Professor of General Surgery.
He has performed the first successful cadaveric liver transplantation at Ege University in 1994 and started the first successful living donor liver transplantation program in Turkey in 1999. He established a multidisciplinary team that currently comprises one of the largest transplant programs in the country performing more than 100 liver transplantations each year. He has performed more than 2000 liver transplants so far. He gave more than 300 hundred national and international lectures and published more than 200 articles in world wide known journals. He trained many surgeons in the country and all around the world.
Dr. Yaman Tokat and his team were the first in Turkey to perform succesful adult-to-adult right lobe living donor liver transplantation, split liver transplantation into two adults, domino liver transplantation, stem cell transplantation for ACLF and dual left lobe liver transplantation.
He is the founder of International Liver Center and also currently working in Acibadem Healthcare Hospitals in Istanbul.
He, is the Founder and Honorary President of Turkish Society of Liver Transplantation.
He is also the Vice President of iLDLT.