NATIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE RESEARCH CENTER

International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine held its annual meeting in 20-26 April 2013 at Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The members and users of UMRAM had a strong appearance in the meeting with 11 presentations and four awards. While Esra Abaci and Emre Kopanoglu received summa cum laude, Fatih Hafalir and Omer Faruk Oran received magna cum laude ISMRM merit awards. Also, Dr. Atalar was selected as secretary of the Interventional MRI study group. He will be vice president of the study group in 2015 and president in 2016. The complete list of UMRAM related presentations are:

Dr. Hulusi Kafaligonul has started UMRAM on Mar 11, 2013 as Assistant Professor. Dr. Kafaligonul received his BS degree from Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Bogazici University. Later he obtained PhD degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Houston. His PhD research was on understanding human vision system. He later joined to Salk Institute for Biological Studies to continue his studies on human vision system. Dr. Kafaligonul is a recipient of the CoFunded Brain Circulation Fellowship.

UMRAM  hosted the "Basic fMRI Course" on 16 -17 March  which was organized by Assoc. Prof. Orhan Murat Kocak of The Psychiatric Association of Turkey (PAT)  Ankara Branch.The course has started with a technical briefing about MRI Scanners given by our MR technician Mr.Musa Kurnaz. After that an imaging practice session was held using the experimental paradigm of the functional imaging study entitled  "OCD motor system" that is being carried out in UMRAM. Then  the analysis of the acquired data had been discussed in detail throughout the day.

Dr. Devashish Shrivastava visit our to present a seminar entitled "Radiofrequency Heating in a 3T Body Coil: Are Current SAR Guideline Sufficient to Ensure Patient Safety?" He also shared his experiences with us during the heat experiment we did on a sheep. Dr. Shrivastava is an assistant professor at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota.  His research interests are RF heating, its thermo-physiological consequences, and associated mechanisms to ensure RF safety for humans during imaging at 1.5 tesla (T) and at higher magnetic field MR systems.

http://www.cmrr.umn.edu/facultystaff/dev.shtml

Dr. Irtiza Gilani joined UMRAM as postdoctoral researcher. Dr. Irtiza's PhD studies were on magnetic resonance imaging at University of Dortmund. He later continued his studies in neuroscience at University of Helsinki. He plans to work under supervision of Drs. Katja Doerschner and Boyaci. 

UMRAM faculty, Dr. Huseyin Boyaci has been promoted to Associate Professor of Psychology in Bilkent University. Promotion to associate professor is a distinct honor reserved for faculty members who demonstrated consistently outstanding achievement in teaching and research. 

Dr. Boyaci is a graduate of Bilkent University. After receiving his PhD, he joined New York University as post-doctoral fellow. Later he continued his studies at University Minnesota at Twin Cities. He has been with Bilkent since 2008. More information about Dr. Boyaci can be found in this web site (Home / People / Faculty).