Prof. Bayram Çolak
Prof. Bayram Çolak was born in Malatya in 1982. He graduated from Selçuk University Meram Faculty of Medicine in 2006 and completed specialty training in General Surgery at Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, becoming a General Surgery Specialist in 2012. After three years at Gümüşhane Kelkit State Hospital he joined Selçuk University Faculty of Medicine General Surgery Clinic in 2015 and became Associate Professor in 2020. In 2022 he became Chair of General Surgery at İzmir Bakırçay University Faculty of Medicine; he served as vice dean from 2023 to 2026 and received the title of Professor in 2026, continuing in the same department.
He obtained burn training and certification at Ankara Numune Hospital in 2018. He has extensive experience in chronic wound and diabetic foot care and is responsible physician of his institution’s Chronic Wound Care Unit. He contributed to Ministry of Health GETAT workshops and to the Larva Application Guideline. He contributes to wound education within the Turkish Surgical Association Difficult Wound Management group; he is among the first in Türkiye to hold maggot debridement certification and serves as an instructor, and also holds a leech therapy certificate.
He participates in national and international studies and in GETAT, wound, burn and surgery congresses and courses.