Since the time he became a radiologist in 1992, Prof Yılmaz has exclusively worked in interventional radiology, which is a subspecialty of radiology dealing with image-guided minimally invasive treatments.  During his career, he visited many prominent interventional radiology centers in USA and Europe, attended more than 100 congresses and symposiums and published more than 70 scientific articles that received over 600 citations. He also made more than 100 scientific presentations in congresses, presented over 50 invited lectures in various meetings and received 7 scientific awards.