He received his medical degree from the Ankara University School of Medicine (AUSM) in 1971 and qualified as a gastroenterologist in 1978. He has studied ultrasonography, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) as well as clinical hepatology in the Department of Internal Medicine at Chiba University School of Medicine in Japan as Prof. Okuda’s student from 1979 to 1981 for 2.5 years. He was subsequently appointed as associate professor in 1982 and as a professor in 1988 and served as chief of Department of Internal Medicine and as a chief of Department of Gastroenterolgy at AUSM from 1993 to 2000. Prof. Dökmeci has been a visiting professor at the Chiba University School of Medicine from 1988 to 1989 and at the University of California, Irvine in 2003. He became the President of APASL and he organized the 25th APASL Annual Conference , 2015 in İstanbul. Also he was the president of the 5th APASL STC, Istanbul in 2009 and honary president of the 28 th APASL STC, Istanbul.He has contributed to editorials, reviews and book chapters. He is in editorial board in various journals such as Hepatology International, Digestive Endoscopy and Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology. He published more than 100 papers in different journals.A.Kadir Dökmeci is currently Emeritus Professor and senior hepatologist in Liver Transplantation Center in Ankara University.