Dr. Davut Kohen was born in 1955 in Ankara. He graduated from Istanbul Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul in 1978. In 1981 he completed his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Paris VI –Hotel Dieu in France. He completed his retina fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1983 in London. He worked at St. John’s Eye Hospital in Johannesburg and at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Paris in till 1985. He has been working at the Amerikan Hospital since 1985 mainly as cataract and vitreo-retinal surgeon.