Bilgehan Karadag was born in 1973 in Tekirdag, Turkey. In 1997 he received his medical degree from Marmara Faculty of Medicine. In 1998 he ranked in both clinical and basic sciences among the first 10 of over 10 000 medical doctors in the Turkish Medical Residency Entrance examination. Subsequently, he finished his cardiology fellowship in Istanbul University Cerrahpasa School of Medicine Department of Cardiology I in 2002. Afterwards, he attended a fellowship between 2002 and 2004 in interventional cardiology at the University Hospital Zurich under Prof. Thomas F. Lüscher. 2004 he was appointed staff interventional cardiologist at the Istanbul University Cerrahpasa School of Medicine. Bilgehan Karadag is the author of over 30 articles and 5 book chapters. His clinical and research fields of interest include acute coronary syndromes and interventional cardiology. He is currently working as a staff physician in interventional cardiology at the Istanbul University Cerraphasa School of Medicine.