Assoc. Prof. Barış ATA, M. D., M.Sc. was born in 1974. He graduated from Istanbul School of Medicine in 1998 and completed residency of Ob. & Gyn. at the Bezm-i Alem Teaching Hospital in 2003. He completed a three years long clinical fellowship program in gynecological reproductive endocrinology and infertility at McGill University, Montreal, Canada between 2008 and 2011. He holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Trials from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He directed the Assisted Reproduction Center of Uludağ University Hospital between 2011 and 2014. He is a full faculty member of Koc University School of Medicine since 2014. He holds several awards for excellence in patient care and academic activity. He serves as a board member in several societies dedicated to human reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies as well as in the editorial boards of several academic journals in the field.