The Team

Prof. Hakki Muammer Karakas, MD, MBA is a global opinion leader and executive in high performance healthcare services and healthcare digitalization. He was the Director of Public Imaging Services for Istanbul Province. Under his authority over half percent of world’s radiological services were being performed (68 imaging centers and departments, 3500+ employees, 24 M exams per year).

Prof. Karakas  studied medicine, radiology and neurology at Hacettepe, Çukurova, Turkish Ministry of Health Ankara Numune Research Hospşital and Bonn (Germany) universities; He received his MBA education with major in marketing at Istanbul Technical University with highest rank.

He is a diagnostic and nonvascular interventional radiologist with an in-depth expertise on advanced ultrasound applications -including fusion imaging, elastography and slow motion Doppler imaging; advanced MRI systems -including fusion imaging, elastography and slow motion Doppler imaging, on  advanced fMRI  and EEG applications, on breast diagnosis and interventions, on RF/MW/laser ablations and on transplantation radiology. He has also worked as a  translational neuroscientist at Bonn University, Germany; at Forschungzentrum Julich GmbH, Germany, and at Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council. On the context of management he was concentrated on strategic management, strategic marketing and quality management.

He has over 700 scientific publications/presentations and over 2800citations. His “h-index” is 30, and “i10-index” is 59. He received over 20 national and international awards for outstanding scientific research and technological R&D, among which European Neuroradiology Award for his contribution to the development of multimodal EEG/ERP-MRI technology. In the field of radiology he ranks and 105^th in Europe according to AD Scientific Index.

He has served in various academic, public and private institutions as physician and/or administrator and has in-depth experience in quality management, high performance management models, public private partnerships (PFI), healthcare architecture, medical IT/AI and imaging services. He served as an advisor, member of advisory board, luminary scientist, member of the luminary board for various multinational  corporations (General Electric, USA; Toshiba, Japan; Canon, Japan; Mindray, China; Guerbet, France, etc.), national corporations  (Gama, Türkerler, etc) and governments (MoH-Turkey, MoH-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, MoH-Russian Federation, Atomic Energy Agency-Pakistan, MoH-Croatia, MoH-Turkey) and to university presidencies. He conducted/conducts large scale infrastructure and procurement projects and operations at the regional and national level for Islamic Development Bank, EBRD, university rectorates and MoH-Turkey. The actual costs of all projects under his control is over half a billion dollars to date.

He  carried out intensive initiatives and projects on digitalization of healthcare services since 2010, and led the creation and development of the national telemedicine network. In this context, he enabled the establishment of several medical tIT  companies. He is also a start-up and scale-up mentor under Istanbul Technical University and several others.

He currently provides clinical services in his private practice and management consultancy under Curea, Inc.