Prof. Sait ADA, one of the founders of EMOT Hospital, was born in Kayseri in 1956. ADA, who specializes in Hand and Microsurgery, General Orthopedics and Traumatology, speaks English and German. He is married and has one child.

Experience

• Kütahya Military Hospital / 1984-1985
• Bingöl State Hospital / 1985-1986
• Alsancak State Hospital / 1986-1989
• Buca SSK Training and Research Hospital / 1989-1991
• Würzburg University Hand Surgery, Germany
• Indianapolis Hand Center, Indianapolis, USA
• EMOT Hospital, İzmir / 1991

Education

• Karşıyaka Boys’ High School / 1967-1973
• Ege University Faculty of Medicine / 1973-1979
• Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology / 1980-1984

Association & Organization

• TOTBİD (Turkish Orthopedics and Traumatology Association) / (2013-2015, Association President)
• TEÜCD (Turkish Society for Surgery of the Hand and Upper Extremity) / (2010-2012, Association President)
• Turkish Society of Arthroscopy and Knee Surgery / (Founding Member)
• FESSH (Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand) / (2013, Congress President)
• ASSH (American Society for Surgery of the Hand) / (International Member)
• Turkish Medical Association
• Turkish Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery

Research and Publication

• Sonographic assessment of transverse carpal ligament after open surgical release of the carpal tunnel.
• The effect of medial side repair in terrible triad injury of the elbow.
• Risk factors for occupational hand injuries: relationship between agency and finger.
• Finger replantations after ring avulsion amputations.
• What kinds of hand injuries are more likely to result in amputation? An analysis of 6549 hand injuries.
• Epidemiology of injuries treated at a hand and microsurgery hospital.
• Long-term results of major upper extremity replantations.
• Ultrasonographic evaluation of the iatrogenic peripheral nerve injuries in upper extremity.
• Comparison between two mini incision techniques utilized in carpal tunnel release.
• Elbow arthrolysis in severely stiff elbows.
• The effect of dorsal cortical comminution on radiographic results of unstable distal radius fractures treated with closed reduction and K-wire fix
• The importance of finger extension test in the diagnosis of occult wrist ganglion.
• Accidental use of the median nerve as an interposition material in first carpometacarpal joint arthroplasty.
• Can we use nerve gliding exercises in women with carpal tunnel syndrome?
• Reconstruction of skin and tendon defects from wound complications after Achilles tendon rupture.
• Should the amputations of the great toe be replanted?
• Correlation of magnetic resonance imaging and intraoperative punctate bleeding to assess the vascularity of scaphoid nonunion.
• Reconstruction of soft tissue and bone defects in lower extremity with free flaps.
• Heterotopic replantation.
• Eight years experience in crush and avulsion type finger amputation.
• Rolling belt injuries in children.
• Replantations and their functional results: the Turkish experience.