About Dr. Canda

Since 2018, Prof. Canda has been working as a faculty member in the Department of Urology at Koç University Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. Koç University is one of the leading universities in Turkey. He has also been serving as the director of a surgical & robotic training & conference center RMK AIMES (Rahmi M. Koç Academy of Interventional Medicine, Education and Simulation) that is located in the same campus with Koç University Hospital in Istanbul.

His main area of interest is robotic surgery. He has been performing robotic urology since February 2009 and has an experience and exposure of more than 2000 robotic urology cases with Intuitive Da Vinci S, Da Vinci Si, Da Vinci x and Da Vinci xi. Starting from April 2025, he has also started to perform robotic urology procedures with Medtronic Hugo RAS robotic system. Starting from March 2026, he has also started to perform robotic urology procedures with Intuitive Da Vinci Single Port (SP) robotic system.

Prof. Canda served as a European Association of Urology (EAU) Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) Board member and he is actively involved in robotic urology training. He has been serving as a trainer in many courses organized at RMK AIMES Training & Conference Center in Istanbul. He also served as a faculty in many robotic urology courses at ORSI Academy Robotic Surgery Training Center in Belgium and also during many international & national congresses, symposiums and courses including the EAU congresses. He trained the 1st and 2nd fellows on robotic radical prostatectomy procedure in Turkey via cc-ERUS training program who received their certificates from ERUS. 

Prof. Canda is a member of ERUS scientific & education working groups and has co-authored many international publications on robotic urology including ERUS and IRCC (International Robotic Cystectomy Consortium) studies published in international peer-reviewed journals and also has co-authored in various international book chapters on robotic urology. 

He is in the editorial board member of various international and national scientific urology journals including European Urology, British Journal of Urology Compass, SIUJ, Robotic Surgery: Research and Reviews, Central European Journal of Urology. He is the editor-in-chief of European Medical Journal of Urology (EMJ Urology) and associate editor for Frontiers in Surgery. 

He has received many awards for the robotic urology studies mostly during ERUS Congresses. 

Prof. Canda is a member of ERUS, EAU (European Association of Urology), AUA (American Association of Urology), SIU (Societe Internationale d’Urologie) and Endourological Society. He is a founding member of SERUS (South East Robotic Urology Surgeons) that is a collaborative group among robotic urologists. He is a founding member of IURES (International Urologic Research Society). He is a board member of IPF (International Prostate Forum). He has been elected as an active member of Association of Academic European Urologists (AAEC) in 2026.

An ERASMUS European Union project (2026) that Prof. Canda from Koç University has partnered together with Hacettepe University (Turkey), Universite de Rennes (France), Universita Degli Studi Di Perugia (Italy), Chosun University (South Korea) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) on European Robotic Technology – Based Training Curriculum in Health Sciences has been approved & funded. The aim of this international project is to develop training models & simulators for robotic training.

Robotic Urology Awards

• 2021 European Congress of Robotic Urology (ERUS 2021), Second Prize, ERUS Session, 11-13 November 2021, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• 2021 ‘’Reviewer of the month’’ European Urology.
• 2019 European Association of Urology Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) Congress, 3rd Presentation Award, ERUS Session, 11-13 September 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.
• 2017 European Association of Urology Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) Congress, 1st Presentation Award, Junior-ERUS Session, 26-27 September 2017, Brugge, Belgium.
• 2017 European Association of Urology European Urology Forum, 5th Presentation Award, 4-7 September 2017, Davos, Switzerland.
• 2015 European Association of Urology South East European Meeting (SEEM) 2nd Presentation Award, 6-8 November 2015, Antalya, Türkiye.
• 2014 European Association of Urology Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) Congress, 1st Presentation Award, Junior-ERUS Session, 17-19 September 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• 2013 European Association of Urology South East European Meeting (SEEM), 3rd Presentation Award, Country Competition Award, 1-3 November 2013, Greece.
• 2010 Presentation Award South East European Meeting (SEEM) Karl Storz 1st Presentation Award, 1-2 October 2010, İstanbul, Türkiye.