Iretıola Oluwakanyınsola Albert, MD

Iretıola Oluwakanyınsola Albert, MD is an Inpatient Clinic Physician at Acibadem Kartal Hospital in İstanbul. Her clinical work centers on inpatient ward care and exercise stress testing. She has more than nine years of experience in medicine and consults with patients in Turkish and English.

Dr. Albert graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 2018, after completing internship training at Hacettepe University Hospital between 2017 and 2018. From 2018 to 2020 she worked as a health tourism specialist, and from 2020 to 2021 she was a research assistant in the Department of Child Health and Diseases at Istanbul Medeniyet University. Between 2021 and 2025 she worked as a general practitioner in the Department of Cardiology at Acibadem Dr. Şinasi Can (Kadiköy) Hospital, and in 2022 she also served as a ward physician on the night staff at Acibadem Ataşehir Hospital. She now holds her current position at the hospital in Kartal.

Clinical focus

Dr. Albert’s main area of practice is inpatient ward care. In this role a ward physician follows patients who have been admitted to the hospital, reviews their clinical status during the stay, monitors laboratory and other results as they become available, and communicates with the specialist teams responsible for the patient’s treatment. For international patients this means having a physician on the ward who follows the day-to-day course of the admission and helps keep the care plan coordinated. Her earlier experience as a night ward physician and her years in a cardiology department form the background to this work.

Her second area of expertise is exercise stress testing. This is a monitored examination in which the patient exercises according to a set protocol while heart rate, blood pressure and the electrocardiogram are recorded. The test is requested by the treating physician when information about the heart’s response to physical exertion is needed. Whether a stress test is appropriate, and how its findings are interpreted, depends on the individual patient’s history and clinical situation and is decided together with the responsible specialist.

How Dr. Albert works with international patients

Dr. Albert consults in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who speak other languages. Before a visit, the international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, such as MRI, CT, X-ray or ultrasound reports, laboratory and pathology results, operative notes and discharge summaries, and arranges appointments and the hospital visit itself. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and current symptoms, a review of existing imaging and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the available options. Video consultations are available for international patients who wish to discuss their situation before travelling, or to follow up after a hospital stay.