Koşuyolu and 30 Years of Pride Story: This light will always be on

摘要

Our institution, changed from Koşuyolu Hospital of Asthma to Koşuyolu Cardiology and Research Hospital by Kemal Beyazit, MD on February 1985, has trained hundreds of cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and cardiovascular anesthesiologist within the last 30 years under leadership of Prof. Cevat Yakut, MD, who has taken over this mission since the beginning. These cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and cardiovascular anesthesiologist have institutionalized their own specialties in numerous universities, training and service hospitals all around Turkey and a large number of them have already advanced their academic career to the degree of being a professor. As a natural consequence of the self-generated information and knowledge, the level of experience provided, as well as glorious representative abilities of its trained staff at their new occupations, and regardless of where it is located - whether in the district it was first established and takes its name from, or in Kartal district miles away - within the last 30 years, Koşuyolu institution, with its pure Turkish four syllables name pronounced at once and meaning beyond the formal descriptive labels added to this name, has left its mark on every corner of the country, given hope of cure to the patients and become a high value training target enriching the young medical students’ dreams of specialty and academic career. Now, Koşuyolu stands as a national brand beyond its street address and its labels, and appears in various platforms of international scientific community through the reports and publications reflecting the generated information and accumulated experience. With its high capabilities, our institution is listed among the leading reference centers in a wide range of sub-specialty and practices including all aspects of adult and pediatric interventional cardiology, neuroradiologic interventions, valvular and structural heart diseases, echocardiography and the other imaging methods, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary endarterectomy, heart and lung transplantation, surgery of pediatric and congenital cardiac abnormalities, assist device, ECMO and cardiovascular anesthesia. However, it is obvious that such accomplishments cannot be attributed only to a group of physicians, and we, as Koşuyolu family, could never have grown this far without the great sacrifices and the social spirit of all our nurses, allied health staff, officers and the other employees. Koşuyolu community has come this way with the priceless efforts of numerous nameless heroes; stunning examples include workman uncle Ibrahim, who willed to stay for one night at our hospital’s morgue after his death, the gardener uncle Necip, who devoted himself to the soil and green due to prostatic cancer from dawn to dusk and transformed the wilderness of the garden of our new hospital into a piece of heaven, and finally everyone’s favorite, administrative unit officer Ayşe, who has personally worked on each and every one of the certificates of specialty of hundreds’ of assistants. With all of these in mind, the 30th anniversary of our institution’s journey has been enthusiastically celebrated between 14-16 May 2015 with scientific programs and social organizations, performed under the title of “30 Years of Pride Story” and the mark “This light will always be on” and with substantial participation from all generations of our family. As the dates overlapped with the Week of Nursing, the first day of scientific program was dedicated to Koşuyolu Nursing Symposium, whereas the 2nd and the 3rd days had rich scientific content based on presentations given by the young academicians from Koşuyolu Adult and Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Chest Surgery, Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Interventional Neuroradiology. The level of industrial participation was also high as expected for such a congress; there were a high number of booth spaces, all of which attracted intense attention.