Yesim Yildirim

Professor Yesim Yıldırım has been working as a medical oncology specialist at Anadolu Medical Center since 2011. She is a member of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO).

She specializes in the cancer immunotherapy and targeted therapies, diagnostics and treatment of malignant neoplasms of various localizations, especially breast cancers, gastrointestinal cancers and lung cancers.

 Also she wrote more than 80 international and national publications, abstracts and  books ( co-author in ‘Handbook of Advanced Cancer Care Treatment’ and ‘Precision medicine in cancer and non-communicable disease). 

Yesim Yildirim is one of the outstanding specialists in the area of medical oncology.

Not only a doctor, but also a scientist and lecturer in Halic University (Istanbul: Turkey). She is a member of several well-known associations: ESMO - European Society of Medical Oncology, ESO - European School of Oncology and so forth.

Nowadays she is currently working in Anadolu Medical Centre at a position of Professor.

Education: In 1999 Dr. Yesim Yıldırım graduated from  Hacettepe University Medical School and started internal medicine fellowship in Gazi University.  After finishing internal medicine she subsequently started her oncology career in Baskent University and became medical oncologist in 2007. During her academic  journey she was awarded by numbers of grants and scholarships.

Academic experience: 

• Obtained a grade of minor assistant to the Medical Oncology Hospital Division after gaining a scholarship of Middle East Cancer Consortium and attending an advanced oncology tuition courses at Rambam Medical Centre in Haifa, Israel;
• In 2010 achieved an academic rank of Assistant Professor of internal diseases at Acibadem University School of Medicine;
• Gained the attestation certificate from ESMO examination (2010);
• Was conferred a scholastic Associate Professor degree in medical oncology after completing her academic studies in 2011;
• Participated to the training course in Melanoma and Kidney Cancer Clinic at Mount Vernon Cancer Center Immunooncology Clinic, London, UK;
• Successfully finished MBA program in Healthcare Management in Bilgi University, Istanbul;
• In 2021 achieved an academic rank of Professor in Haliç University, Istanbul.

Improving of practical qualification:

• Sivas Numune Hospital (compulsory service for government);
• Acibadem Kozyatagi Hospital;
• Acibadem University of Medicine;
• Anadolu Medical Centre, Istanbul, Turkey.

Language: English, Russian (B1 level), Turkish

AWARDS:

From MECC, for advanced training program in the field of oncology at Rambam Medical Center, from 2 December 2004 – 30 December 2004, Haifa, Israel.

Hans Wyder Fellowship for ESO’s advanced course:’ Immunology for Oncologist’16-18 April 2005, Ascona, Switzerland.

Orazio Rudell Fellowship for Colorectal Conference, 2-3 December 2005, London, UK.

5th Masterclass in Medical Oncology, 11-17 February 2006, Malta.

December 2015: Mount Vernon Cancer Center Immunooncology Clinic, London, UK.