Dr. Omer Tontus

Omer Tontus, MD,

General Surgeon, Clinical Teacher

Medical Tourism Expert & Keynote Speaker

Graduated from Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty on 1987 with M.D. degree. Assumed the title of general surgery specialist on 1993 after completing residency program.

Performing as both physician and director in several agency and institutions,

Assigned as the Member of Ondokuz Mayıs University, Faculty of Medicine, Head of Medical Education Department in 2010

Elected for Faculty Board of Management in 2011,

Assigned as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the same university in 2011.

During performing as the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, I was assigned as the General Director of General Directorate of the Health Promotion in 2013.

In 2014, I have also assigned to manage Turkey's Medical Tourism policies.

Assigned as specialist in Public Hospitals Administration of Turkey in 2016.

As a general surgeon and medical educator, Dr. Tontus is currently studying on designing medical education in a computer based approach. Through this research, Dr. Tontus and his team are studying on computer based assessment system and they developed dedicated a software.

He is also leading the WALLESS project for small group PBL activities through computer. The team is focused on adopting and integrating new technologies in medical education.

Recently, Dr. Tontus and colleagues introduced a new cognitive competency test. Test constructed with true/false statements in three level with a packed concept directly targeting only one learning outcome, which named as BTST (Branching Tree Statements Test).

In addition to her scholarly contributions, Dr. Tontus is a dedicated teacher. He served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Higher Education Council of OMU.

From early 2015 to 2017, Dr. Tontus published 11 books. They all are focused on Medical Tourism.

Also, he is a dedicated antique British silver collector with huge collection dating back to 16th century.