Department of Orthopedic and Traumatology, Memorial Hospital, Istanbul Turkey

Ahmed Majid Heydar was born in Al-Basrah, Iraq in 1980. He earned his bachelor’s degree in medicine & general surgery in 2005. From 2010 to 2015, he was a research fellow in the Orthopedic and Traumatology Department at Marmara University’s School of Medicine in Istanbul, Turkey. His residency thesis was on the early results of magnetic growing rods in the treatment of early-onset scoliosis. Since then, he has conducted and published many clinical studies focusing on magnetic growing rods and their application in the medical field. He became a fellow of the Turkish Orthopedics and Traumatology Training Council and the European Board of Orthopedic and Traumatology (FEBOT) in 2015 and 2016, respectively.

Currently, Dr. Heydar is working as an orthopedic surgeon at Memorial Hospital and as a lecturer in physiotherapy and rehabilitation at Marmara University. Further, he is a member of the Turkish Orthopedic and Traumatology Association, Turkish Spinal Society, and Society of Turkish-Speaking Countries of Orthopedic and Traumatology.