Anatolia IVF Center

Professor Hakan Yarali, MD is the Scientific Director of Anatolia IVF Center, Ankara, Turkey. Following medical school and residency training at Hacettepe University, he did his clinical fellowship at University of British Columbia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Vancouver, Canada during 1991-1992. Dr. Yarali has published over 100 original articles, reviews and book chapters, has delivered several presentations, lectures and conferences worldwide. Dr. Yarali is a reviewer of many international journals. Dr. Yarali has received several national and international awards including the most promising young scientist in Turkey in 1998 by the Turkish Scientific, Technical and Research Council which is the most prestigious research council in Turkey. He was the former president of Turkish Society of Reproductive Medicine (TSRM). He has organized several national and international meetings. His special interests are all aspects of clinical IVF. He is directing Anatolia IVF, which is the busiest IVF Center in Ankara performing over 1600 cycles annually.

Mehtap Polat, MD, is the Clinical Director of Anatolia IVF and Women Health Center, Ankara, Turkey. She completed her medical school training at Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine where she graduated with a 5 Class Honour Award in 2000. Following completion of her residency training at Gazi University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, she joined Anatolia IVF in 2005. She has been in the field of IVF over 11 years. Her special interests are clinical IVF, preimplantation genetic screening (PGS), preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis. She has published over 21 original international articles, reviews and a metaanalysis.

She graduated from Sabanci University, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department of Engineering and Natural Sciences in 2011. She did an internship in Complex Genetic Disorders Department of Harvard University 2010. She completed her master's degree in Reproduction and Cancer Biology Department of John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in USA between 2011 and 2012. She thereafter completed a 2-year master's program in Clinical Embryology and Andrology at Eastern Virginia Medical School at Norfolk, US, which has achieved the first IVF baby in US. She has been working in Anatolia IVF since 2012.

Following graduation from Gazi University, School of Biology, she completed a Masters degree in the Department of Histology and Embryology at the same University. Being a senior embryologist, Elif has been in the field of clinical embryology for the last 6 years.

Feryal Uludag is the chief nurse of Anatolia IVF. Following her university training in nursing, she completed a masters degree in psychiatric nursing.She has been in the field of IVF for the last 8 years. She has special interest in total quality improvement and quality management.