Dr. Hamdi Özkan, 1971 yılında Ankara’da doğdu. İlk ve ortaöğretimini Ankara’da, üniversiteyi de 1988-1994 yılları arasında Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesinde okudu. İntörnlük eğitiminin bir kısmını Fransa’nın başkenti Paris’te bulunan Pitie-Salpetriere Hastanesinde tamamladı.
Mecburi hizmet görevini pratisyen hekim olarak iki yıl Kastamonu’da yaptı. Daha sonra Ankara Trafik Hastanesinde ortopedi ve travmatoloji ihtisasına başladı.
İhtisası bitirdikten sonra aynı hastanede üç yıl öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaya devam etti ve birçok yeni ortopedik cerrahın yetişmesine katkıda bulundu.
Kanada dönüşünde resmî görevinden ayrılarak Ankara’da Lokman Hekim Hastanelerinde hem kurucu yönetim kurulu üyesi hem de ortopedik cerrah olarak çalışmaya devam etti. Bu süre zarfında Irak’ın Erbil ve Süleymaniye şehirlerinde gönüllü olarak savaş sonrası “extremite kısalıkları” olan hastalara uzatma ve düzeltme ameliyatları yaptı ve bu alanda birçok yerel cerraha da eğitim verdi.
Hamdi Özkan, Ankara’dan sonra çalışma hayatına İstanbul’da özel sektörde devam etti. Hâlen de özel Aktif Hastanesinde başta “estetik boy uzatma” amaçlı veya “travma sonrası extremite uzatma operasyonları” olmak üzere mikrocerrahi, artroskopik cerrahi, pediatrik ortopedi ve eklem artroplastisi gibi bir çok alanda cerrahi tedavilerini uygulamaya devam etmektedir.
Evli ve üç kız babası olan Özkan, ileri düzeyde İngilizce ve Kürtçe, orta derecede de Arapça ve Fransızca bilmektedir. Ayrıca hobi olarak devam ettiği hukuk eğitimini de tamamlamak üzeredir

Dr. Hamdi Özkan was born in 1971 in Ankara. He studied his primary and secondary education in Ankara and the university between 1988-1994 at Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine. He completed part of his internship at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, the capital of France.
He performed his compulsory service duty as a general practitioner in Kastamonu for two years. Later, he started his specialization in orthopedics and traumatology at Ankara Traffic Hospital. The hospital where he received his specialization training was a hospital that accepted intensive patients especially for the bone problems of severely traumatized patients, and for this reason, he frequently performed lengthening surgeries on extremities that were short after trauma, with different techniques according to the age and condition of the patients. In the same hospital, he participated in many operations with plastic surgeons in the correction of cosmetic problems after lengthening and trauma.
After completing his residency, he continued to work as a faculty member in the same hospital for three years and contributed to the training of many new orthopedic surgeons. While continuing to work here, he worked intermittently for two years at Ottawa Central and Civik Hospital, the capital of Canada, in order to improve his surgical experience. Don Johnson and Dr. He participated in many operations with Peter Lapner.
On his return to Canada, he left his official duty and continued to work as a founding board member and orthopedic surgeon at Lokman Hekim Hospitals in Ankara. During this time, he voluntarily performed lengthening and correction surgeries on patients with post-war “extremity shortness” in the cities of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in Iraq, and he also trained many local surgeons in this field.
After Ankara, Hamdi Özkan continued his working life in the private sector in Istanbul.
Özkan is married and has three daughters. He is fluent in English and Kurdish, and intermediate in Arabic and French. He is also about to complete his legal education, which he continues as a hobby.