Işıl Yıldırım Baştuhan, M. D. was born in 1975 in Ankara. After graduating from Tarsus American Highschool in 1993 she attended an exchange student program in St. Thomas Aquinas High School. She attended a math program for a year at Trinity Washington University and returned to Turkey and graduated from I.U. Istanbul (Çapa) Faculty of Medicine in 2001. She finished her residency in Dr. Sami Ulus Pediatric Teaching and Research Hospital in 2007 and completed her residency in pediatric cardiology in Hacettepe University in 2011. She worked as an observer in Children’s Hospital Colorado in pediatric cardiology in 2010. She worked as a pediatric cardiologist in Adana Numune Teaching and Research Hospital until 2014. She is working in Koç University Hospital since October 2014.