Biography

Dr. Akin Cil received his medical training at the Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in Turkey. Dr. Cil then emigrated to the United States where he completed the Adult Reconstructive Fellowship at Baylor University, the Upper Extremity Reconstructive Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, and the Pediatric Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship at Harvard before joining the faculty at UMKC in 2008. In 2012 Dr. Cil was named the Franklin D. Dickson/Missouri Endowed Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Research because of his collaborative research with colleagues in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering in UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering.