Prof. Dr. Levent Altıntaş

Vice Rector & Professor of Medical Education

Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University, School of Medicine

Prof. Dr. Levent Altıntaş is Vice Rector and Professor of Medical Education at Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University, where he also serves as Head of the Department of Medical Education. He graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Medicine and completed his PhD in Public Health at Istanbul University–Cerrahpaşa in 1998. Before joining Acıbadem, he was a founding faculty member of the Department of Medical Education at Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine and held multiple leadership roles in university governance, strategic planning and educational development.

His academic work focuses on strengthening the quality, coherence and sustainability of undergraduate medical education. He has led major initiatives in curriculum reform, skills-laboratory development, program evaluation and faculty development, and has designed and implemented strategic plans for program evaluation and educational development. Prof. Altıntaş has contributed to national discussions on medical education standards and accreditation and has served on the boards and commissions of leading professional bodies, including the Association for Medical Education Development, the Turkish Medical Education Association and the Association for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Medical Education Programs (TEPDAD). His main areas of expertise include competency-based medical education, educational leadership, program evaluation and quality assurance in health professions education.

Prof. Dr. Levent Altıntaş has, in parallel with his academic career, built a long-standing and extensive body of experience in business, corporate training and management consulting as the founder and board member of NEVIDEA Creative Solutions and its affiliated brands. The evolution of NEVIDEA can be summarized in three main phases: a corporate training phase (late 1980s–1990s) focused on personal development, teamwork and leadership programs; a consulting and management systems phase (2000s) centred on human-centred management processes, performance evaluation systems and corporate learning architectures; and a venture partnerships and entrepreneurship phase (2010s and beyond), in which collaboration-based business models are developed to support innovative ventures through project and investment partnerships.

Over this journey, Prof. Altıntaş has delivered training to more than 14,000 participants, served as project leader or senior consultant in over 150 business projects, and conducted business and executive coaching with more than 50 senior leaders. He has given over 200 talks on developments and priorities in the business world, followed by audiences exceeding 30,000 people, and has maintained consulting relationships at various levels with more than 500 organizations. He has played a leading role in the development of brands such as Entelekya, NEVIDEA Future Leaders, HRscala, 4Evaluate and 7Masa.

At the core of his work lies the human factor as the key differentiator of corporate success. With this perspective, he supports the integration of a human-centred outlook with strategic business outcomes across all areas of work. He collaborates with numerous organizations on the design, implementation and management of corporate development projects and provides multifaceted support to both institutional and individual entrepreneurship initiatives.