Prof. Dr. Utkan SEVUK was born in Erzurum in 1979. He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 2003. He completed his specialty education at Ankara Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital University in department of cardiovascular surgery in 2010. In 2017, he received the title of Associate Professor of cardiovascular surgery.Between 2018 and 2019, he completed his master's degree on "innovation in cardiac surgery: advances in minimally invasive therapeutics" at Santanna Scuola Superiore University(Pisa, Italy). He passed the European Board exams and was awarded as the Fellow of the European Board of Cardiothoracic surgery (FEBCTS) in 2021.