Dr. Canan Melike Köksüz was born in İzmir in 1960, where she completed her studies. She graduated from Ege University Faculty of Medicine in 1986 and worked at the Ministry of Health for 10 years.
She took part in child health and family planning and shortly thereafter, she began working in a hair restoration clinic in Izmir in 2000 up until 2003, when she decided to move to Istanbul.