Dr. Rüya Acaroğlu
Dr. Rüya Acaroğlu
Thoracic Surgery Specialist · Antalya Atatürk State Hospital
Born on 15 January 1969 in Tire, İzmir. She completed primary, secondary, and high school education at Tire ŞAİK High School and graduated from Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine (1985–1992). She worked as a municipal and health-center physician in Isparta (1992–1996) and as a general practitioner at Antalya health centers Nos. 6, 24, and 28 (1996–1999).
From 1999 to 2004 she served at the Center for Hereditary and Acquired Blood Disorders and Thalassemia, performing thalassemia DNA mutation analyses at Boğaziçi University Department of Genetics. She completed specialty training in Thoracic Surgery at Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine (2005–2010), fulfilled her compulsory service at Malatya State Hospital, and has since worked as a thoracic surgery specialist at Antalya Atatürk State Hospital. Between April 2017 and August 2019 she served at Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.
In October–December 2019 she completed GETAT Phytotherapy training at Medipol University. She continues to approach illness not only at the symptom and organ level but within the person’s holistic life conditions and functional processes. Since January 2020 she has offered breath awareness and breath education under the title “Nefesine Sahip Çık – Nefesine Teşekkür Et.” After completing Epigenetic Coaching training in 2024, she continues to evaluate patients in her clinic with a holistic and functional perspective, integrating classical medicine and thoracic surgery with phytotherapy, epigenetics, breath awareness, and functional approaches.