Dr. Tevfik Sözen graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine and completed his residency training in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the same university between 2005 and 2011. He fulfilled his two-year compulsory service in Gaziantep until 2013. After completing this obligation, he worked as a specialist physician in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Hacettepe University from 2013 to 2019. During this period, he served as an official fellow of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (EAFPS) for one year, working for three months each in the USA, the UK, Germany, as well as in Izmir and Istanbul. During his fellowship, he had the opportunity to work with renowned surgeons including Andrew Jacono (USA), Mehmet Manisalı (UK), Fazıl Apaydın (Izmir), Özcan Çakmak (Istanbul), and Holger Gassner (Germany). By the end of this period, he had completed a one-year subspecialty training program in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. In 2015, Dr. Sözen successfully passed the two-step examination process in the United Kingdom and obtained board certification in Facial Plastic Surgery. He became an Associate Professor at Hacettepe University in 2019, and in 2025, he was appointed as a Professor at Ankara Medipol University.