Bora Kahramangil, MD

I was excited to match into plastic surgery residency at UTHealth Houston after witnessing the high surgical volume, wide breadth of cases, and high resident autonomy. A little over a year into my 3-year training, I anticipate that I will meet my graduation case requirements within this year. Despite the high volume, I have enjoyed a good work-life balance and had the opportunity to participate in research. Overall, I couldn’t have asked for a better program.

Bora Kahramangil, MD

Medical School: Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Postgraduate Education: Endocrine Surgery Research Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

General Surgery Residency: Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL

Selected awards:

  • 2023 – 2024 Academic Year – University of Texas Health Houston Plastic Surgery Program Highest Percentile In-Service Score Award
  • 2017 – American Thyroid Association Trainee Grant
  • 2015 – Seref Zileli, MD Award for the Successful Student of the Year at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine
  • 2010 – Top 0.005% score in Turkish Medical School Admission Exam

Selected publications

  • Kahramangil B., Pires G., Montorfano L., Riesgo AM., Ghaznavi AM. The Utility of Flap Coverage for Limb Salvage in Patients with Severe Prosthetic Joint Infections of the Knee Requiring Implant Exchange. Ann Plast Surg. 2023 Jul 1;91(1):129-136. doi: 10.1097/SAP.0000000000003600.
  • Kahramangil B., Montorfano L, Gutierrez D, Erten O, Zhou K, Li D, Rao P, Berber E. Biochemical assessment of adrenal insufficiency after adrenalectomy for non-cortisol secreting tumors: clinical correlation and recommendations. Surg Endosc. 2022 Oct;36(10):7638-7646. doi: 10.1007/s00464-022-09232-8. Epub 2022 Apr 12.
  • Kahramangil B., Pires G., Ghaznavi AM. Flap Survival and Functional Outcomes in Elbow Soft Tissue Reconstruction: A 25-year Systematic Review. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2021 Dec 2:S1748-6815(21)00637-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2021.11.091.
  • Kahramangil B., Kose E., Reynold J., Stein R., Rini B., Siperstein A., Berber E. A Modern Assessment of Cancer Risk in Adrenal Incidentaloma: Analysis of 2219 Patients. 2022 Jan 1;275(1):e238-e244. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004048..
  • Kahramangil B., Kose E., Donmez M., Aydin H., Reynolds J., Krishnamurthy V., Jin J., Shin J., Siperstein A., Berber E. Thyroglobulin Washout from Cervical Lymph Node Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsies in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: An Analysis of Different Expressions to Use in Post-total Thyroidectomy Follow-up. Surgery. 2020 Jan;167(1):34-39. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2019.05.083. Epub 2019 Sep 6.
  • Kahramangil B, Kose E, Berber E. Characterization of fluorescence patterns exhibited by different adrenal tumors: Determining the indications for indocyanine green use in adrenalectomy. Surgery. 2018 Aug 4. pii: S0039-6060(18)30322-2. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2018.06.012. Surgery. 2018 Nov;164(5):972-977. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2018.06.012. Epub 2018 Aug 4.
  • Kahramangil B., Kose E., Donmez M., Aydin H., El-Dabh D., Krishnamurthy V, Jin J, Shin JJM, Siperstein A, Berber E. Efficacy of Surgeon-Performed, Ultrasound-Guided Cervical Lymph Node Fine Needle Aspiration in Patients with Thyroid Pathologic Conditions. Surgery. 2018 Oct;164(4):657-664. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2018.05.036. Epub 2018 Jul 30.
  • Kahramangil B., Dip F., Benmiloud F., Falco J., de La Fuente M., Verna S., Rosenthal R., Berber E. Detection of Parathyroid Autofluorescence Using Near-infrared Imaging: A Multicenter Analysis of Concordance between Different Surgeons. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2018 Apr;25(4):957-962. doi: 10.1245/s10434-018-6364-2. Epub 2018 Feb 6.
  • Kahramangil, B., Berber E. Comparison of Posterior Retroperitoneal and Transabdominal Lateral Approaches in Robotic Adrenalectomy: An Analysis of 200 Cases. Surgical Endoscopy. 2018 Apr;32(4):1984-1989. doi: 10.1007/s00464-017-5894-1. Epub 2017 Oct 19.
  • Kahramangil B., Berber E. Comparison of indocyanine green fluorescence and parathyroid autofluorescence imaging in the identification of parathyroid glands during thyroidectomy. Gland Surg. 2017 Dec;6(6):644-648. doi: 10.21037/gs.2017.09.04.
  • Kahramangil B., Mohsin K, Alzahrani H, Bu Ali D, Tausif S, Kang SW, Kandil E, Berber E. Robotic and endoscopic transoral thyroidectomy: feasibility and description of the technique in the cadaveric model. Gland Surg. 2017 Dec;6(6):611-619. doi: 10.21037/gs.2017.10.03.
  • Kahramangil, B., Berber, E. The use of near-infrared fluorescence imaging in endocrine surgical procedures. Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2017, Jun; 115(7): 848-855. doi: 10.1002/jso.24583. Epub 2017 Feb 15.

PRS Interests: Facial reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, microsurgical breast reconstruction

Dr. Kahramangil is a plastic surgery resident at UTHealth Houston. Born and raised in Turkey, he attended medical school at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. After graduating in the top 5% of his class, he moved to the United States to continue his training. Following a productive endocrine surgery research fellowship at Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Kahramangil completed his General Surgery Residency at Cleveland Clinic Florida.

In his free time, Dr. Kahramangil enjoys traveling with his wife Kalie, who shares his passion for hiking and skiing. Their favorite hiking sites include the Napali Coast in Kauai, HI, Blue Mountains National Park in Australia, and Isle of Skye in Scotland.