Ayşe Gökçe Çiçek Çimen, MD

Ayşe Gökçe Çiçek Çimen, MD is an Internal Medicine specialist at Acibadem Bakirkoy Hospital in İstanbul, where she works within the Internal Medicine unit. Her subspecialty interests are Functional Medicine and Thyroid Diseases and Treatment. With more than 26 years in medicine, her practice centers on the diagnosis and ongoing management of chronic and metabolic conditions.

Dr. Çimen completed her secondary education at Ted Ankara Koleji Vakfı Özel High School in 2000 and graduated from Gazi University Faculty of Medicine in 2007. She completed her specialty training in Internal Medicine at Ankara Training and Research Hospital in 2013. Between 2013 and 2016 she worked at Hitit University, Çorum Training and Research Hospital, Internal Medicine Clinic, Çorum. She then held positions at Medipol University Sefaköy Hospital, İstanbul (2016–2019), Haseki Training and Research Hospital (2019–2022), Kolan Beylikdüzü Hospital (2022–2024) and Özel Or-Ahayim Balat Hospital (2024–2025), before joining Acıbadem Healthcare Services in 2025. She is a member of the Turkish Internal Medicine Specialty Association and the Turkish Medical Association.

Clinical focus

Dr. Çimen’s clinical work covers a broad range of internal medicine conditions, with particular attention to metabolic disease diagnosis and treatment. She evaluates and manages patients with prediabetes, type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, as well as obesity and other chronic diseases that require long-term follow-up. Thyroid disorders form a further area of her practice, in line with her subspecialty interest in thyroid diseases and treatment.

Her areas of expertise also include anemia and conditions of the digestive organs, including pancreatic diseases, liver diseases and biliary tract diseases. Alongside conventional internal medicine, Dr. Çimen has an interest in functional medicine as an approach to assessing patients with chronic and metabolic conditions. The appropriate assessment and treatment plan in each case depends on the individual patient’s history, examination findings and test results.

How Dr. Çimen works with international patients

Dr. Çimen consults in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who speak other languages. Before a visit, the Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, such as laboratory results, ultrasound, CT or MRI reports, pathology results and discharge summaries, and arranges appointments and the hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and symptoms, a review of existing imaging and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the options. Video consultation is available for international patients who wish to discuss their case before or after traveling.