Prof. Dr. Hasan Altunbaş completed his medical education at Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine (1990), and then completed his residency in internal medicine (1996) and his fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism (1999) at Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine. He became an assistant professor in 2000, an associate professor in 2005 and a professor in 2010, and between 2010 and 2019 he worked as a faculty member at the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine. Since 2019, he has been practicing at his private clinic in Antalya.
His clinical interests include thyroid diseases (hypothyroidism, Hashimoto's disease, hyperthyroidism, Graves' disease, nodular goiter, thyroid cancers and thyroiditis), parathyroid diseases, type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, overweight and obesity, adrenal gland diseases (primary hyperaldosteronism, Cushing's syndrome, pheochromocytoma), osteoporosis, vitamin D deficiency, hyperlipidemias, hirsutism, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and pituitary gland diseases (pituitary adenomas, prolactinoma, acromegaly, hypopituitarism).
He has 55 articles published in international peer-reviewed journals, 41 presentations at international scientific meetings, 14 international congress presentations published as abstracts in SCI-indexed journals, 30 national journal articles, 92 presentations at national scientific meetings and 3 translated book chapters. He served as an investigator in the TURDEP-II and TURNEP multicenter national study groups, and in 2007 gained research experience at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA). He has held administrative positions such as Head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine (2012–2014) and Advisor to the Rector (2015–2019).