ABSTRACT

Professor Caner was born in Ankara on March 15, 1959. He began work as a research assistant in the Neurosurgery Department of Hacettepe University School of Medicine on 1984. During 1988 and 1989, he worked as a clinical and research fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at Fukui University School of Medicine, in Japan. Furthermore, he spent four weeks observing stereotaxic brain surgery in the universities of Gunma and Keio in 1989. He returned to Hacettepe University, Turkey in 1989. He earned his specialist degree in 1992. He was awarded several national and international prizes due to his successful academic research. Baskent University awarded Dr. Caner the title of Professor in 2002. He began to work as the editor in chief for the official journals of the Turkish Neurosurgical Society in 2007. He was elected to the executive committee of the Turkish Spine Society on May 11, 2013. He was the leading spinal surgeon performing balloon kyphoplasty in Turkey. Furthermore, he commonly performed percutaneous spinal instrumentation, especially in combination with minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (Mis-TLIF). He was one of the most experienced spinal surgeons dealing with atlantoaxial fusion surgery. He became one of the pioneers of Turkish spine surgery. He died due to gastric cancer in his most active period, leaving his lovely family and colleagues in deep sadness.