BERGEM·HEALTH
Free consultation
Home › Doctors › Prof. MD. Birkan İlhan
GERIATRICS · LIV VADISTANBUL

Prof. MD. Birkan İlhan

Professor of Geriatrics · Liv Hospital Vadistanbul
Prof. Dr. Birkan İlhan is a geriatrics specialist at Liv Hospital Vadistanbul. After earning his English-medium MD at İnönü University and completing internal medicine training at Marmara University, he subspecialised in geriatrics at Istanbul University and held a research fellowship in Rheumatology at Mayo Clinic. He represents Turkey on the UEMS Geriatrics Section and focuses on polypharmacy, sarcopenia, frailty, dementia and the management of chronic disease in older adults.
15+
years in medicine
39
international publications
9
h-index
Geriatric MedicinePolypharmacySarcopeniaFrailtyDementiaOsteoporosisEUGMS Member
A BergemHealth coordinator arranges contact with the professor within 24–48 hours on business days.
Direct contract with BergemHealth
CONSULTATION LANGUAGES
TR Turkish · native
EN English · professional
RU Russian · via BergemHealth coordinator
UK Ukrainian · via BergemHealth coordinator
ISTANBUL · 05/2026
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
  • ★
    2017
    Best Oral Presentation First Prize
    Academic Geriatrics Congress
  • 2017
    Special Jury Award
    International Academic Geriatrics Congress
  • 2018
    Best Oral Presentation Second Prize
    Academic Geriatrics Congress
  • 2021
    Best Oral Presentation Second Prize
    23rd National Internal Medicine Congress
EDUCATION & CAREER

Timeline

Career milestones.

2007-2008
General Practitioner
Malatya 112 Emergency Health Services
2013
Research Fellow (3 months)
Mayo Clinic, Department of Rheumatology
2017-2019
Geriatrics Specialist
Gaziantep Dr. Ersin Arslan Training and Research Hospital
2019-2022
Training Assistant / Faculty
SBU Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Internal Medicine and Geriatrics Clinic
2020-2022
Associate Professor, Private Practice
Diyarbakır
current
Professor of Geriatrics
Liv Hospital Vadistanbul
PUBLICATIONS

Scientific work

Selected peer-reviewed publications.

  • 2020
    Eur Geriatr Med
    «Turkish inappropriate medication use in the elderly (TIME) criteria to improve prescribing in older adults: TIME-to-STOP/TIME-to-START»
    · co-author
  • 2016
    Eur Geriatr Med
    «Sarcopenia and the cardiometabolic syndrome: a narrative review»
    · co-author
  • 2018
    Drugs Aging
    «Routine deprescribing of chronic medications to combat polypharmacy»
    · co-author
  • 2018
    Aging Male
    «Explicit versus implicit evaluation to detect inappropriate medication use in geriatric outpatients»
    · co-author
  • 2016
    Clin Interv Aging
    «Underestimated factors may also precipitate delirium and can lead to the misinterpretation of frailty in these patients»
    · first author
  • 2022
    Exp Gerontol
    «Simpler modified fried frailty scale as a practical tool to evaluate physical frailty: methodological report for cross-cultural adaptation and validation»
    · co-author
CLINIC

Where they practise

Direct contract with BergemHealth at every listed clinic.

PRIMARY CLINIC
Liv Hospital Vadistanbul
The sixth hospital of the Liv group. Robotic surgery with da Vinci SP Single Port, 3 Tesla MRI, PET/CT, Versa-HD radiotherapy. 50+ departments: oncology, neurosurgery, IVF, bariatrics, spinal surgery. Stem…
Open clinic profile
REQUEST

Tell me about your case — I’ll read it personally.

Fill in the short form on the consultation page — diagnosis, preferred timing, attached records. We assemble a tumour board for your case and reply within 4 hours.

Open the consultation form
  • Reply within 4 hours during business hours
  • Confidentiality guaranteed
  • Coordinator-translator inside the doctor’s office
  • Tumour board of 2–3 professors within 72 hours
OTHER DOCTORS

Similar BergemHealth professors

Adjacent specialties and second opinions. Direct contracts, verified cases.

Prof. Dr. Selami Sözübir
Professor profile
Prof. Dr. M. Giray Ersöz, MD
Professor profile
Doç. Dr. Haydar Adanır
Professor profile