Prof. Dr. Sabahattin Kaymakoğlu

Prof. Dr. Sabahattin Kaymakoğlu is a gastroenterology specialist at Acibadem Bakirkoy Hospital in İstanbul, where he works in the Gastroenterology unit. His professional interests include liver diseases, viral hepatitis, inflammatory bowel diseases, and organ transplantation coordination. He has more than 50 years in medicine and consults in Turkish and English.

Dr. Kaymakoğlu studied at İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Medicine from 1976 to 1982. He completed his Internal Medicine training there in 1990 and his Gastroenterology training in 1992. He became an Associate Professor in 1993 and was appointed Professor in 1999. Between 1993 and 1999 he worked at İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Medicine, and in 1994 and 1995 he spent time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England. He has been with Acıbadem Healthcare Services since 2001. He is a member of professional organizations including the Turkish Gastroenterology Association, the Liver Research Association, the American Association for the Study of the Liver Diseases, the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Association, and associations focused on viral hepatitis and organ transplantation coordination.

Clinical focus

A central part of Dr. Kaymakoğlu’s practice is the assessment and management of liver diseases. This includes evaluating patients whose blood tests or imaging point to a liver problem, discussing possible causes, and planning follow-up in line with each patient’s clinical picture. Within this area, viral hepatitis is a particular interest: he sees patients with newly identified or long-standing hepatitis infections and advises on monitoring and treatment options where appropriate. He also contributes to organ transplantation coordination, working with other teams when a patient with advanced liver disease is being considered for, or has undergone, transplantation.

Dr. Kaymakoğlu also sees patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. Care in this area typically involves reviewing symptoms, prior endoscopy and laboratory findings, and current medication, and then discussing how the condition can be monitored and managed over time. More broadly, he offers general gastroenterology consultation for digestive complaints that fall within his specialty.

How Dr. Kaymakoğlu works with international patients

Dr. Kaymakoğlu consults in Turkish and English. Patients coming from abroad are supported by the international patient team, which collects existing medical reports, laboratory results, and imaging before the visit and arranges appointments and, where needed, interpretation in other languages. A first consultation usually covers the patient’s history, current symptoms, previous test results, and medications, after which Dr. Kaymakoğlu explains his assessment and any further investigations that may be useful. For patients who cannot travel initially, a video consultation is available so that records can be reviewed and next steps discussed remotely; whether an in-person visit or additional testing is then needed depends on the individual case.