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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akif Ayaz, MD

Associate Professor of Medical Genetics · İSÜ Liv Hospital Bahçeşehir
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akif Ayaz is a medical geneticist at İSÜ Liv Hospital Bahçeşehir and faculty member at İstinye University. A graduate of Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine with specialization in medical genetics from Pamukkale University, he previously served at major Istanbul genetic diagnosis centers including Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Training Hospital, Istanbul Medipol University Genetic Diseases Assessment Center, and Şişli Memorial Hospital's IVF unit. His clinical and research focus spans neurogenetics, cancer genetics, reproductive genetics and dysmorphology, with 40+ international publications.
40+
international publications
NeurogeneticsCancer GeneticsReproductive GeneticsDysmorphologyMolecular DiagnosticsMicroarray / NGS
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CONSULTATION LANGUAGES
TR Turkish · native
EN English · professional
RU Russian · via BergemHealth coordinator
UK Ukrainian · via BergemHealth coordinator
ISTANBUL · 05/2026
EDUCATION & CAREER

Timeline

Career milestones.

interim
Medical Geneticist
Adana Numune Training and Research Hospital, Genetic Diagnosis Center
interim
Medical Geneticist
Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Training and Research Hospital, Genetic Diagnosis Center
interim
Faculty member, Department of Medical Genetics
Istanbul Medipol University Faculty of Medicine; Genetic Diseases Assessment Center
interim
Medical Geneticist
Şişli Memorial Hospital, IVF and Reproductive Health Center
current
Medical Geneticist
İSÜ Liv Hospital Bahçeşehir; İstinye University
PUBLICATIONS

Scientific work

Selected peer-reviewed publications.

  • 2021
    Am J Hum Genet
    «High prevalence of multilocus pathogenic variation in neurodevelopmental disorders in the Turkish population»
    · co-author · 86 citations
  • 2020
    Turk J Med Sci
    «COVID-19: pathogenesis, genetic polymorphism, clinical features and laboratory findings»
    · co-author · 65 citations
  • 2023
    Clin Neurol Neurosurg
    «Clinical and genetic spectrum from a prototype of ciliopathy: Joubert syndrome»
    · co-author · 15 citations
  • 2015
    J Int Adv Otol
    «The prevalence of gap junction protein beta 2 (GJB2) mutations in non syndromic sensorineural hearing loss in Çukurova region»
    · co-author · 14 citations
  • 2018
    Balkan Med J
    «Haploinsufficiency of the DMRT gene cluster in a case with 46,XY ovotesticular disorder of sexual development»
    · co-author · 13 citations
  • 2016
    Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus
    «Detection of α-Thalassemia by using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification as an additional method for rare mutations in southern Turkey»
    · co-author · 13 citations
CLINIC

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İSÜ Liv Hospital Bahçeşehir
A multidisciplinary Liv Hospital campus on the European side of Istanbul. Opened in December 2016. 60+ departments: cardiology, neurosurgery, oncology, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology. da Vinci surgery, 3 Tesla MRI.
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