Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Yeşilyurt, MD

Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Yeşilyurt, MD is a specialist in Medical Genetics with more than 28 years in medicine. He practises in the Medical Genetics Department at Acibadem Maslak Hospital and Acibadem Atakent Hospital in İstanbul. Dr. Yeşilyurt graduated from Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine in 1998 and completed his specialty training in Medical Genetics at Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine in 2007. Between 1998 and 2003 he worked as a General Practitioner at M.E.B. Health Education Center in Erzurum, and from 2003 to 2007 he was a Dr.Ar.Assist. at Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine.

From 2007 to 2013, Dr. Yeşilyurt was Responsible Physician at the Genetics Center and later the Genetic Diagnosis Center of Dr. Zekai Tahir Burak Women’s Health Training and Research Hospital in Ankara, first as a Specialist Doctor and, from 2012, as an Associate Professor Doctor. Between 2013 and 2017 he served as Associate Professor at Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital in Ankara, where he was Supervisor of the Genetic Diagnosis Center and of the Tissue Typing Laboratory. From 2018 to 2019 he worked as a Medical Genetics Specialist at the Genetic Diagnosis Center of Yeni Yüzyıl University, Gaziosmanpasa Hospital in Istanbul. In 2019 he became Director of Acibadem Labgen Genetic Evaluation Center. He was a Visiting Scholar at Charite University, Institute of Transfusion Medicine Berlin,GERMANY in 2008 and at Reprogenetics, Livingston, NJ, USA in 2013. He is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics, the European Society of Human Genetics, the Society for Transplantation Immunology and Genetics, the Turkish Immunology Association and the Medical Genetics Association.

Clinical focus

Dr. Yeşilyurt’s work covers genetic evaluation and genetic diagnosis for individuals and families, including prenatal genetic diagnosis and genetic testing on amniocentesis samples. His laboratory background includes tissue typing and transplant immunogenetic testing. He also evaluates chromosomal copy number abnormalities.

Among the inherited conditions listed in his areas of expertise are inherited thrombophilia, familial Mediterranean fever, maturity-onset diabetes of the young, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, nonclassical congenital adrenal hyperplasia, thyroid hormone resistance and hereditary glaucoma. His published research reflects several of these topics, with papers on inherited thrombophilias, familial Mediterranean fever, maturity-onset diabetes of the young in Turkish children, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, CYP1B1 in pediatric and adult glaucoma, nonclassical congenital adrenal hyperplasia, thyroid hormone resistance, chromosomal findings and amniocentesis indications.

How Dr. Yeşilyurt works with international patients

Dr. Yeşilyurt consults in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for other languages. Before a visit, the hospital’s international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports, such as laboratory and genetic test results, imaging reports, pathology findings and discharge summaries, and arranges the appointment and hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s personal and family history and symptoms, a review of existing results and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the options, which may include further genetic testing. A video consultation is available for patients abroad who wish to speak with Dr. Yeşilyurt before travelling.