Ihya Emre Gorgun MD, MBA

Dr. Ihya Emre Gorgun obtained his medical degree from Istanbul University, Istanbul School of Medicine, Turkey. After he completed five years of general surgery residency training at Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine in Turkey, he moved to the United States. He finished 2 years of research fellowship, followed by a year of clinical fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, Department of Colorectal Surgery. He moved to New York City for an advanced laparoscopic colorectal fellowship at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill-Cornell. In New York, he decided to complete an ACGME-approved residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill-Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Gorgun then also completed an ACGME-approved specialty training in Colon and Rectal surgery/laparoscopic surgery at Weill-Cornell and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Gorgun joined the Cleveland Clinic, Department of Colorectal Surgery, as a full-time faculty member in 2011, and he is certified by the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Gorgun is Vice Chair, Colorectal Surgery, and Director of Endoluminal Surgery Center, Lower GI.  Dr. Gorgun holds the Krause-Lieberman Chair in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery.