Dyt. Eda Honca

Dyt. Eda Honca is a Nutrition and Diet specialist who sees patients at Acibadem Fulya Hospital and Acibadem Etiler Outpatient Clinic, both in İstanbul. She works within the Nutrition and Diet unit, where she provides nutrition and diet consultations. She has more than 14 years of experience in nutrition and dietetics and speaks Turkish and English.

She graduated from Haliç University Faculty of Health Sciences in 2012. In the same year she began working as a Nutrition and Diet Specialist at Acıbadem Göktürk Medical Center, where she remained until 2014. From 2014 to 2017 she held the same role at Acıbadem University Atakent Hospital, and in 2017 she moved to Acıbadem Kocaeli Hospital, again as a Nutrition and Diet Specialist. In 2022 she joined Acıbadem Healthcare Services. Her career has therefore been spent within a single healthcare group, across several of its hospitals and outpatient facilities.

Clinical focus

Dyt. Eda Honca’s work centers on clinical nutrition. This begins with a nutritional assessment, in which she reviews the patient’s dietary habits, medical history, current treatments and, where available, laboratory results, in order to understand nutritional status and any factors that may affect it. On this basis she prepares an individual diet plan. Diet planning takes into account the patient’s medical condition, any restrictions arising from treatment, personal preferences and daily routine, so that recommendations are realistic to follow.

Her approach is described as patient-focused nutrition management. Rather than applying a single standard program, she adjusts recommendations to the individual and reviews them over time as the patient’s condition, treatment or goals change. Nutrition and diet support is often provided alongside care from other medical units, and she coordinates her recommendations with the wider treatment plan where this is relevant. Patients receive guidance on how to apply the plan in everyday life, and follow-up allows the plan to be revised as needed.

How Dyt. Eda Honca works with international patients

Dyt. Eda Honca speaks Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for other languages. Before a visit, the Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports, including laboratory and pathology results, imaging reports 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 reports and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the options, which in a nutrition consultation includes the assessment and the outline of a diet plan. Video consultations are available for international patients and may be used for an initial discussion or for follow-up of an existing plan.