“After my father’s death, I committed myself to the company. If I wanted to preserve this life’s work, I could not have acted otherwise.”
From that loss grew a commitment that has accompanied Professor Altintas at the highest level ever since: to carry a life’s work forward at its helm and to accept personal responsibility.
His medical career took him to Hannover Medical School. Harald Tscherne, one of the fathers of modern trauma surgery, had established a school of international standing there: a training ground for the surgical elite. His successor, Christian Krettek, became Altintas’s long-standing mentor and shaped his surgical discipline.
In Istanbul, he met Professor İbrahim Yıldırım, a leading authority in plastic surgery and former president of the Turkish Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery.
Gerald Spilker of the Cologne school and Günter Germann of the Heidelberg and Ludwigshafen school shaped his subsequent path. He earned his doctorate at Heidelberg University, Germany’s oldest university and one of its most renowned.
Hans-Ulrich Steinau, a recipient of Germany’s Federal Cross of Merit, opened doors to the professional societies. Robert Hierner and Alfred Berger accompanied him and his scientific career for years as personal friends and scientific colleagues. Their standard textbooks brought together the foundations and benchmarks of plastic surgery. He shared a particularly close scientific exchange with Alfred Berger.
Professor Peter Eichhorn, a pioneer of public and nonprofit management, also stood at his side. In Mannheim, Eichhorn established a school of thought with international influence. Altintas completed his Master of Science in Healthcare Management at the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. Medical responsibility and institutional leadership came together here.
Oktay Sinanoğlu also became a mentor: the renowned Yale scientist who was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize. His intellectual independence opened perspectives beyond disciplinary boundaries.
Scientific collaboration connected Altintas with colleagues at the University of Colorado, University Hospital Zurich and the University of Southern California. In the operating theatre, he developed his own approach. As a trainer and mentor, he passed on his experience to a new generation of young physicians.
Science thrives on exchange. Over the years, an international network grew around Professor Altintas: across Europe, the United States and Asia. As Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editor-in-Chief of international journals, and through his work on scientific editorial boards, he takes responsibility for that dialogue. Yet many of these connections extend beyond a shared publication. Long-standing collaboration became personal friendship. Trust built over time, with room for professional disagreement. People who know one another, critically engage with each other’s work and develop shared standards. This is the particular strength of this network: international experience joined with personal dependability.
As a presidential physician, he served heads of state and ministers and cared for leading figures in business. Professor Altintas remained discreetly in the background, without publicly drawing attention to his position. People with far-reaching responsibilities trusted him with their most personal concerns. Discretion and personal integrity were inseparable from his understanding of his role as a physician.
Today, this path leads to UHNW Aesthetics.
As President and Medical Director, he is responsible for the scientific and institutional standards of the house. His experience provides direction. His principles set the benchmark.
A couple accustomed to making far-reaching decisions with their Family Office faces a deeply personal choice: a medical decision that may affect their lives for years. The question is: whom do we trust?
The professor they have independently appointed takes time. He listens, examines the evidence and speaks with the treating physicians. Careful attention brings clarity. And clarity brings the freedom to make a decision of their own.
In this institution, they find an anchor of trust: medical judgment, careful review and personal responsibility. Due diligence and governance take on a human dimension here. Those who carry responsibility for companies and families should know that their own medical decisions are supported with the same care.
A personal commitment has become a shared aspiration. It shapes the identity of the house: accepting responsibility, earning trust and living with personal integrity. It is carried by professors who share this conviction and uphold the principles of this unique institution through their work.
UHNW Aesthetics. Responsibility that earns trust.
