Internal Medicine · Acibadem Kent Hospital (Izmir) Tuğba Çelebi, MD
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Tuğba Çelebi, MD is a internal medicine specialist at Acibadem Kent Hospital in İzmir, Türkiye, with 16 years of experience. Listed areas of expertise include functional medicine, longevity applications, clinical nutrition, geriatric health and type 2 diabetes. She consults in Turkish and English, and online consultation is available for international patients before travelling.
Accepting international patientsAbout Tuğba Çelebi, MD
Tuğba Çelebi, MD is an internal medicine specialist with 16 years of experience. She treats type 2 diabetes, anaemia, thyroid diseases, fatty liver disease and geriatric health concerns, and her areas of expertise also take in functional medicine, clinical nutrition and longevity applications. Functional Medicine and Thyroid Diseases and Treatment are her named subspecialties.
She graduated from Ege University Faculty of Medicine in 2010 and was an internal medicine resident physician at Ege University Faculty of Medicine from 2014 to 2019. She then worked as an internal medicine specialist doctor at Ağrı Training and Research Hospital from 2019 to 2024, joined Acıbadem Healthcare Services in 2025, and sees patients at Acibadem Kent Hospital in İzmir, Türkiye.
Her published work, dated between 2019 and 2022, comprises three papers: one on corneal densitometry in patients with arcus senilis and its correlation with serum lipid levels, one on factors affecting allograft kidney function over a ten-year period, and one on HbA1c and liver stiffness measurement in patients with diabetes. Dr. Çelebi speaks Turkish and English, so patients travelling from abroad can be understood in either language, and online consultation is available, allowing a patient to speak with her before making the journey.
What Dr. Çelebi treats and performs
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Areas of practiceFunctional medicineThyroid diseases and treatmentGeriatric health
Conditions treated
- Type 2 diabetes
- Anaemia
- Medical treatments
- Chronic diseases
- Fatty liver disease
Procedures performed
Education, career and memberships
Education & training
Education
- 2019Ege University Faculty of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine
- 2010Ege University Faculty of Medicine
Career
Professional Experience
- 2025Acıbadem Healthcare Services
- 2019–2024Ağrı Training and Research Hospital, Internal Medicine Specialist Doctor
- 2014–2019Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Internal Medicine Resident Physician
- 2011–2012Ağrı Mother and Child Health Center, General Practitioner
Selected publications
Selected Publications
- Corneal densitometry in patients with arcus senilis and its correlation with serum lipid levels. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology 70(5):p 1556-1563, May 2022. | DOI: 10.4103/ ijo.l JO 2696 21 Yilmaz, Yusuf Cem; İpek, Şefik Can; Özer, Muhammet Derda; Celebi, Tugba.
- Investigation of the Factors Affecting Allograft Kidney Functions: Results of 10 Years Transplantation Proceedings, https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.transproceed.2019.02.014 May 2019, Pages 1082-1085 YearsjEmrah Günay,Tuğba Çelebi,Sait Şen,Gülay Aşcı.Banu Sarsik Kumbaraci ,Cenk Gökalp,Mümtaz Yılmaz,Hüseyin Töz
- Decrease in HbA1c accounts for the rapid decline in the measurement of liver stiffness by transient elastography in diabetic patients Journal of Hepatology, ISSN: 0168-8278, Vol: 70, Issue: 1, Page: e760, http://doi.org/10.1016/ s0618-8278(19)31514-2, April 2019 Tugba Celebi, Nilay Danis, Fulya Gunsar, Galip Ersoz, Zeki Karasu, İlker Turan, Ömer Ozutemiz, Ulus Akarca
