In 1983, Dr. Folkert Belzer, Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin, had the great foresight to offer a faculty position to a young Turkish surgeon, Dr. Munci Kalayoglu, then a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Kalayoglu accepted Dr. Belzer’s offer to join the UW surgery faculty as a pediatric surgeon and to establish a liver transplant program to complement the UW’s kidney and pancreas transplant programs.

Dr. Kalayoglu spent months preparing UW Hospital to become a liver transplant center, and performed the first liver transplant at the University of Wisconsin in July 1984.

Since that time, he has built the UW program into one of the finest liver transplant programs in the country. He performed the UW’s 1,000th liver transplant on July 21,
2001.

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Title of Winning Proposal: H MR Spectroscopic Investigation of Manic Patients Before and After Administration of a Protein Kinase C Inhibitor: Tamoxifen: A Double Blind Placebo Controlled Study. Aysegul Yildiz.

Aysegul Yildiz, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Dokuz Eylul Medical School
Izmir, Turkey

Dr.Yildiz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Dokuz Eylul Medical School, Izmir, Turkey. She is a graduate of the Hacettepe University, Medical School. She completed her residency training in psychiatry at the Dokuz Eylul Medical School.

Dr.Yildiz spent 2.5 years as a post-doctoral research fellow, both at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota and at the Bipolar Program, MGH, Harvard Medical School. During this period, under the directions of Drs. Ugurbil, Renshaw and Sachs, she gained experience in the fields of neuroimaging, neuropsychopharmacology and phenomenology of bipolar illness.

Dr.Yildiz is currently the recipient of several research grants, including those from the Stanley Medical Research Institute. In addition, she is the recipient of the Fellowship Award from the ECNP (2002); and Independent Investigator Award from the Pfizer-U.S.A (2002).

Dr.Yildiz’s areas of clinical and research interest include study of pathophysiology of bipolar illness, evaluating therapeutic effects of putative anti-manic agents, and in collaboration with McLean Hospital, Harvard, and NIMH, molecular biology and neuroimaging applications in bipolar disorders.

Dr. Yildiz has authored more than twenty articles in peer-reviewed journals and has been an invited speaker at both national and international scientific and clinical meetings.

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Can Erbil specializes in international trade and development economics with a focus on trade liberization, tax reforms, and macroeconomic policy recommendations in an open economy framework. In his research he employs advanced economic modeling tools such as CGE models and integrated modeling platforms, as well as intuitive and simple innovations such as the “debt burden index” (see recent paper with Ferhan Salman titled “Revealing Turkey’s Public Debt Burden - A Transparent Payments Approach,” forthcoming in JPM).

For the last four years, Can Erbil has been working as a full-time faculty at IBS and the Department of Economics at Brandeis University. Erbil teaches courses in international trade and globalization (graduate level), development economics (graduate and undergraduate), econometrics (graduate and undergraduate - at Brandeis and Harvard), microeconomics, macroeconomics, quantitative analysis (graduate level), economic modeling with general equilibrium: theory and practice (Ph.D. level), political economy (graduate level) and international monetary economics and finance (at Harvard University).

Can Erbil is also a Research Fellow at EcoMod, Global Economic Modeling Network, where he is involved in research and teaching on economic modeling. EcoMod is based in Brussels.

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Professor Banu Onaral, leads the research team developing a hand-held breast cancer scanner which fits in your handbag. The ground-breaking technology, to be sold in High Street chemists, could be used by women of all ages but could be particularly useful for younger and pre-menopausal women who are currently not screened for cancer.

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Dr. Onaral is H. H. Sun Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Drexel University. She holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and BSEE and MSEE in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Onaral joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Biomedical Engineering and Science Institute in 1981. She has served as the founding Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering Science and Health Systems since 1997.

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Born in Turkey Nov. 22, 1930. visited the German and St. Benoit French College during the WW II. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Aachen/Germany. Designer at Brown Boveri/Switzerland. Lt.Eng. in the Turkish Army in Iskenderun 1960-62. Bechtel & Co. in Montreal and J.J.Henry in Philadelphia. U.S. Naval Forces and promotion with Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. Retired as Prof.Eng.

Member IEEE, American Club of Zurich. A short biography in “Who is Who in Science and Engineering”.

Prof. Dr. Güler Somer

BS and MS from Chemical Engineering Department of Ankara University, Turkey
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, (1971) Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Research areas:

Reaction kinetics in photochemical reactions

Analytical Chemistry, electroanalytical chemistry, particularly in developing methods for trace element determinations for clinical and environmental measurements, interference studies.

Development of sensors, solid state, membrane and enzyme electrodes

She has authored more than 100 original research articles on these subjects and she is on the advisory boards of several journals devoted to the fields of analytical chemistry

She is also Turkish representative of Division of Analytical Chemistry, (FECS) Federation of European Chemical Societies