Aksel Keklik, PA-C

Aksel Keklik, PA-C, helps athletes and patients in pain realize their full physical potential. He is particularly passionate about athletes at the middle and high school level, and donates his time helping with injuries and offering his services for physicals.

Aksel began studying medicine not long after his dream of retiring as a professional soccer player was cut short. He came to the United States to escape civil unrest in his native Turkey and to pursue a new career helping athletes heal and regain their strength after injury. He learned English, adapted to a new culture, and after graduating from Old Dominion University, went on to receive his Master of Physician Assistant (PA) degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School.

For the next 8 years, he worked his way up to high-level functioning PA and PA leader positions in emergency medicine. He was drawn to SMOC because of our “strong effort to treat our patients as if they were one of our family members.” Today, Aksel has a young family of his own and is excelling in his career, with the turbulent memories of his youth serving to motivate him to do the best he can on behalf of his patients.