Prof. Dr. Seza Ali Gulec is the founding Chief of Surgical Oncology and Endocrinology and Director of Surgical Research at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University. He received his medical education at Ankara University College of Medicine in 1984. He trained in surgery at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He subsequently trained in surgical oncology at John Wayne Cancer Institute (Santa Monica, CA). He is also trained in nuclear medicine and nuclear oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He has authored landmark publications in lymphatic mapping, sentinel node biopsy, radioguided surgery, radionuclide therapy, and molecular imaging. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society of Surgical Oncology and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
