Melisa Yalçın, Audiologist

Melisa Yalçın is an audiology professional at Acibadem Altunizade Hospital in İstanbul, where she works within the Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) unit. Her work centers on the assessment of hearing in adults and children, and her clinical interests include hearing loss, pediatric hearing loss, audiometry, and BERA (ABR) testing.

She completed her education at Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University Vocational School of Health Services in 2018. She has been working with Acıbadem Healthcare Services since 2021 and has more than eight years of experience in medicine. Her role is diagnostic: she carries out and documents hearing tests whose results are used by the treating physicians in the ENT unit.

Clinical focus

Hearing loss can take different forms and appear at any age, and its evaluation begins with accurate, well-documented testing. Melisa Yalçın performs audiometry, a hearing test that measures how a person responds to sounds of different pitches and volumes. The results help the treating ENT physicians understand the type and degree of hearing loss and inform the discussion of further steps. She also carries out BERA (ABR) testing, an objective method that records the response of the hearing pathway to sound. Because this test does not depend on the patient answering questions or pressing a button, it is often used when standard audiometry is not practical or when the results of other tests need to be confirmed.

A significant part of her clinical interest is pediatric hearing loss. Testing children calls for approaches adapted to age and cooperation, and objective methods such as BERA (ABR) testing play an important role in the assessment of infants and young children. Her assessments are performed within the ENT unit, where the findings are shared with the physicians responsible for diagnosis and treatment planning.

How Melisa Yalçın works with international patients

Melisa Yalçın speaks Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged when needed. For patients traveling from abroad, the international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports, including any previous hearing test results, imaging such as MRI or CT reports, laboratory results, operative notes and discharge summaries, and arranges appointments and the hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and hearing-related symptoms, a review of existing test results and previous treatments, a clinical examination, and a discussion of the testing that may be appropriate. Video consultation is available for international patients and can be used for an initial review of hearing concerns and existing reports before travel; audiometry and BERA (ABR) testing themselves need to be performed in person at the hospital. Where a patient has already been tested elsewhere, bringing the original audiograms and test reports allows earlier results to be compared with new findings.