Ateş Kadıoğlu is graduated from Istanbul High School in 1977 and from Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1983. He served as a resident until 1990 and then as clinical instructor at the same Faculty. He became associate professor in 1994, and then professor in 2000. Prof. Kadıoğlu served as the President of the Turkish Society of Andrology between 2002 and 2009.