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Dr. Nihal Tastekin is a psychiatrist. She completed her residency in 2020 at Istanbul Erenköy Mental and Neurological Diseases Training and Research Hospital. She graduated from Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine in 2013. Her thesis examined the clinical and cognitive effects of a computer-assisted cognitive improvement method in people with opioid use disorder.

She completed her state service at Bolu İzzet Baysal Mental Health and Diseases Hospital from October 2020 to June 2022. She provided AMATEM outpatient and inpatient care from April 2021 to June 2022. She has worked at the NP Istanbul Brain Hospital AMATEM clinic since June 2022.

Professional interests include addiction, anxiety disorders, cognitive remediation, dynamic psychotherapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy.

Education: 

Degree                       Program                                             University                   Year

Bachelor                     Medical Sciences                               İstanbul University     1995

Master Degree           Medical Sciences                               İstanbul University     1997

Doctorate and expertise in medicine

Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology     İstanbul University     2004

Assistant professor     

İstanbul Bilim University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology İstanbul Bilim University        2009

Associate professor

İstanbul Bilim University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology İstanbul Bilim University        2011

Clinical Neurophysiology Subspecialty          

İstanbul Bilim University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology İstanbul Bilim University        2011

PhD Thesis:

INVESTIGATION OF ANTI-GANGLIOSIDE AND ANTI-GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODIES IN JUDICIAL MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY AND INVESTIGATION OF SUBCLINIC ANTERIOR HORN INVOLVEMENT BY ESTIMATE MOTOR UNIT COUNT METHOD-2002

Experience

Research Assistant 

Department of Neurology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University        1998-2004

Specialist

Şişli Florence Nightingale Hospital, Department of Neurology       2004-2009

Assistant Professor

Istanbul Bilim University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology 2009-2011

Assoc. Prof.     

Şişli Florence Nightingale Hospital Department of Neurology 

İstanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital 

Memberships to Scientific Organizations:

Turkish Medical Association

Turkish Neurology Association

Turkish Association for Combating Epilepsy

Turkish Clinical Neurophysiology EEG-EMG Association

Association of Child Neurology and Neuroimmunology

Awards:

Clinical Neurophysiology Congress (Antalya-2013): First prize for the poster paper titled "Continuous Video-EEG Monitoring Findings and Clinical, Laboratory and Imaging Characteristics of Patients Monitored in the Neurology Intensive Care Unit Due to Alertness Defect"

National Epilepsy Congress (Muğla-2012): "Does Semiology Tell Us the Origin of Seizures Consisting Mainly of Alteration of Consciousness?" Kenan Tükel publishing award for his publication

National Epilepsy Congress (Izmir- 2008): First prize in the field of epilepsy congress publications with the publication titled "Reduced axon number in Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy demonstrated by motor unit number estimation analysis"

National Epilepsy Congress (Ankara- 2004): First prize in the field of epilepsy congress publication with the publication titled "No association of anti-gm1 and anti-gad antibodies with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy"

Turkish Clinical Neurophysiology EEG-EMG Association, 19th National Clinical Neurophysiology EEG-EMG Congress (Trabzon-2002): Congress publication award for the publication titled "Epileptic seizures in Behçet's disease".

Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council scientific publications incentive award-2002: (With the publication titled "Epileptic Seizures In Behçet's Disease")

Turkish Neurology Association, 38th National Neurology Congress - 2002: Second prize for the oral presentation titled "Investigation of subclinical anterior horn involvement in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy with the estimated motor unit number method".

Turkish Epilepsy Association and Sanofi Pharma Scientific Research Project Support Award - 2001: "Investigation of anti-ganglioside antibodies in juvenile myoclonic epilepsies" thesis project.

After he became a neurologist, he did 3,5 years of obligatory service for the gouvernment, first 1,5 years in military (Iskenderun Navy Hospital) and two more years in Diyarbakır Social Security Hospital. He returned to Istanbul University in 1989. He worked in the Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota U.S.A. during 1990 - 1991 on Demantia and Behavioural neurology subjects.

He became an Associate Professor in 1994 and continued working in Istanbul University until 1999. Between 1999 - 2002, he worked at the Kadir Has University and also Florence Nightingale Hospital.

He served in the Faculty executive committee of Kadir Has University during 1999 - 2000 and became a professor in 2000. Following that, worked in the Kozyatağı Hospital between 2004 - 2013.  

Since 2013 he has been working in Florence Nightingale Hospital.  

 SPECIALITIES

Demantia

Epilepsy

Headache

 WORK EXPERIENCE

Military service in Navy Hospital, 1985 - 1986

Obligatory state service in Diyarbakır S.S.K Hospital, 1986 - 1989

Kozyatağı Acıbadem Hospital 2004 - 2013

She was born in Istanbul in 1986. He graduated from Üsküdar American High School in 2004. In 2010, she graduated from Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine and received the title of doctor of medicine. In 2011, he started his specialty training at Istanbul Medical Faculty, Department of Mental Health and Diseases and became a psychiatry specialist in 2016. He fulfilled his state service obligation at Diyarbakır Bismil State Hospital. In 2020, he started his doctoral studies on the epidemiology of psychosis at Maastricht University School of Mental Health and Neuroscience in the Netherlands and is still continuing. In 2021, she started working as a psychiatry specialist at NPISTANBUL AMATEM department. In 2023, she was awarded the title of associate professor in psychiatry. Dr. Ceylan Ergül continues to work as an associate professor at Üsküdar University Department of Mental Health and Diseases and continues her research in the fields of addiction and psychosis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2013 – Prof. Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul

2013 – Prof. Istanbul Bilim University Medical Faculty, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Istanbul

2011 – Assoc.Prof. Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul

2010 - 2011 – Chief II. Orthopedics Clinic, Assoc.Prof. SB Goztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul

2006 - 2009 – Vice-Chief II. Orthopedics Clinic, Assoc.Prof. SB Goztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul

1992 - 2005 – Vice-Chief II. Orthopedics Clinic, SB Goztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul

1984 - 1991 – Orthopedist, SB Rize Hospital, Rize

1983 - 1984 – Orthopedist, Medical Sub-Lieutenant Kayseri Airborne Brigade, Kayseri

2004 - 2008 – Coordinator, Pediatric Orthopedics-Orthopedic Trauma-Ilizarov Meetings, Istanbul Hospitals

2002 - 2004 – President, TOTBID Pediatric Orthopedics Branch

COURSES ATTENDED

1997 - 2014 – Trainer, Ilizarov Limb Lengthening Courses

2012 – International Pediatric Orthopedic Symposium, Orlando FL

2011 – Instructor, AO Pediatric Trauma Course, Izmir

1996 – Graf Hip Ultrasonography Course, Vienna

MEMBERSHIPS

Turkish Medical Association

Turkish Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (TOTBID)

Turkish Orthopedics and Traumatology Society (TOTDER)

Turkish Educational Council of Orthopedics and Traumatology

TOTBID Pediatric Orthopedics Branch

Turkish ASAMI (Ilizarov Applications and Research Center) Founding Member

EPOS (European Pediatric Orthopedics Society)

AAOS (American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons

AWARDS

1) 2008. Chondroprotective effect of salicylate and chloroquine in pyogenic septic arthritis. SSK Göztepe Training and

Research Hospital Scientific Journal Competition First Place Award.

2) 2007. Modified Salter osteotomy for the treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip:Description of a new

technique that eliminated the use of pins for internal fixation. TOTBİD Pediatric Orthopedics Branch Journal

Competition First Place Award

3) 2007. Modified Salter osteotomy for the treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip:Description of a new

technique that eliminated the use of pins for internal fixation. SSK Göztepe Training and Research Hospital Scientific

Journal Competition Second Place Award.

4) 2005. Incomplete triple pelvic osteotomy for the surgical treatment of dysplasia of the hip in adolescents and

adults. TOTBİD Pediatric Orthopedics Branch Journal Competition Second Place Award

5) 2005. Incomplete triple pelvic osteotomy for the surgical treatment of dysplasia of the hip in adolescents and

adults. SSK Göztepe Training and Research Hospital Scientific Journal Competition First Place Award

6) 2004. A new capsuloplasty technique in DDH treatment. SSK Göztepe Training and Research Hospital Scientific

Journal Competition First Place Award

Education and Specialization

• 1986 - 1989: Istanbul Faculty of Medicine
• 1989 – 1993: Ege University Faculty of Medicine
• 1994 – 1999: SSK Tepecik Children's Hospital
• 1999: Head of Emergency Department, SSK Tepecik Hospital

Experience

• 1993 – 1994: Konya Meram Hatunsaray Health Center
• 2000: Diyarbakır Military Hospital
• 2000 – 2013: Antalya Atatürk State Hospital
• 2013 – 2019: Medstar / Memorial Hospital
• 2019 – Present: Medical Park Antalya Hospital Complex

She graduated from Ankara Başkent High School in 1992 and Gazi University Faculty of Medicine in 1999. She completed her specialty training at Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and became a psychiatry specialist in 2005.

She has received Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Group Supervision training; Level I and II Family Therapies Training; Cognitive Psychotherapy Training; Family and Relationship Therapies Training and has articles published in local and foreign journals. Her field of interest is family and relationship therapies.

Born in 1976 in Dashoguz, Turkmenistan,  Prof. Serdar Nurmedov graduated from Trabzon Kanuni Anatolian High School in 1996 and Karadeniz Technical University in 2002. In the same year, he started working as a research assistant at Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and became a Psychiatry Specialist in 2009. After becoming a specialist, he worked at NPISTANBUL hospital until 2015 and during this time he took an active role in the establishment of Turkey's first private Addiction Treatment Center. Between 2015 and 2023, he held various positions in Acıbadem Health Group and received the title of Associate Professor in Psychiatry in 2019.

Since the most important factor in his choice of psychiatry is his interest in addiction and related problems, he has done a significant part of his scientific research in this field since the first days he started working as a research assistant. At the same time,  Prof. Dr. Serdar Nurmedov, who has completed many trainings in this field in Turkey and abroad, has been an observer in psychiatry and addiction rehabilitation centers in many countries including the United States of America, the Netherlands and the Russian Federation.

Prof. Dr. Serdar Nurmedov, who did his specialty thesis on "Alcohol Addiction and Cognitive Functions", has nearly 50 scientific articles published in national and international journals, presentations in national and international congresses, awards, books and book chapters. His publications have received more than 1000 citations to date.

Currently,  Prof. Serdar Nurmedov, who continues to work as a lecturer at Üsküdar University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, continues his research in the fields of General Psychiatry, Addiction, Neuroscience and Psychotherapy.

Dr. Uri Kramer is a highly experienced pediatric neurologist with a specialty in epilepsy treatment in children, who has been practicing for over 50 years. He is the author of a novel epilepsy alarm-system and has written over 160 scientific papers in pediatric neurology. He is also the former President of the Israel Epilepsy Association and a member of the American and Israeli Pediatric Neurology Societies.

Psikiyatri Uzmanı (2010). Gazi Üniversitesi Nörobilim doktorası (2017). 2007’de Deney Hayvanları Kullanma Sertifikası aldı. Kemirgenlerde psikiyatrik hastalık modelleri, psikofarmakoloji ve davranışsal ile immünohistokimyasal analizler üzerine çalıştı. İlgi alanları şizofreni ve diğer psikotik bozukluklar, bağımlılık ve psikofarmakolojidir.

Yerli ve yabancı dergilerde yayınları vardır. Biri ulusal, biri uluslararası olmak üzere iki kitap bölümünün yazarıdır. Bir ulusal ve bir uluslararası poster ödülü sahibidir. Yürütücüsü olduğu bir ve araştırmacısı olduğu bir TÜBİTAK‑3001 projesini tamamladı. Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi’nin (2010‑) ve The Journal of Neurobehavioral Sciences’ın (2015‑) yayın kurulu üyesidir. TTB ve Türkiye Psikiyatri Derneği üyesidir. NPFUAM Yönetim Kurulu üyesidir. TPD Nörobilim ile Psikofarmakoloji ve Somatik Sağaltımlar Çalışma Birimleri’nde görev yapmaktadır.

Neurologist. Specialist in the epilepsy treatment

Prof. Dr. Yasef began his medical education at Istanbul University in 1973 and graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine in 1979. He started his specialization in neurology at the same university in 1980 and became a neurologist in 1985. During his specialty training, he spent 6 months at Hacettepe University in the Neurology Department in Ankara.

After becoming a neurologist, he completed 3.5 years of obligatory government service, spending the first 1.5 years at the Iskenderun Navy Hospital and the next 2 years at Diyarbakır Social Security Hospital. He returned to Istanbul University in 1989.

Prof. Dr. Yasef worked abroad in the United States from 1990 - 1991, focusing on dementia and behavioral neurology.

In 1994, he became an Associate Professor and continued working at Istanbul University until 1999. Between 1999 - 2002, he worked at Florence Nightingale Hospital, and then at Kozyatağı Acıbadem Hospital from 2004 to 2013.

Since 2013, he has been a valuable part of the team at Florence Nightingale Hospital.

Specialties

• Dementia
• Epilepsy
• Headaches

Work Experience

• Military Service at Iskenderun Navy Hospital, 1985 - 1986
• State Service at Diyarbakır S.S.K. Hospital, 1986 - 1989
• Florence Nightingale Hospital, 1999 - 2002
• Kozyatağı Acıbadem Hospital, 2004 - 2013
• Florence Nightingale Hospital (Since 2013)

YOSAPHON VICHIENVANITCHKUL, M.D.

General Internal Medicine

Graduated (M.D. From)

Doctor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Srinakharinwirot University

Working in general internal medicine treat patients with a wide range of acute and long-term medical conditions.

Certificates

Certificate of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Bhumibol Adulyadej Hospital, Directorate of Medical Services, Royal Thai Air Force

Current Positions

General Internal Medicine doctor at Intrarat Hospital

Dr Panyapan Tiraprasidporn, M.D.

General Pediatrician

Special training in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases and injuries in children. Pediatricians also help manage other problems that affect children, such as developmental disorders and behavioral, emotional, and social problems.

Graduated (M.D. From)

Doctor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

Certificates

Certificate of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

Current Positions

General Pediatrician at Intrarat Hospital

Dr. Miri Neufeld is a highly experienced and well-esteemed neurosurgeon with 49 years of service at the Sourasky Medical Center, specializing in the treatment of brain diseases such as epilepsy. She has completed medical education at Tel Aviv University, interned at Sheba Medical Center, completed residency in Neurology at Beilinson Medical Center, interned at the Mayo Clinic (USA), and held memberships in various medical associations.