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Biography
Prof. L.Ö. Atay is leading
Nuclear Medicine Department in the Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University. She is
focused on the first in country applications and technologies. As Molecular
Imaging is one of the most growing area regarding new innovations, she has been
working hard not only to make them available, from the beginning, in the
country but also takes part on the initiating working groups of European
Association of Nuclear Medicine. She is a pioneer on the Neuroimaging having
strong collaboration with Neurology Society.
Before getting her professor degree, she
worked in The Netherlands Cancer Institute and University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center. She took several roles as committee member and chairperson within the
European and Turkish Society of Nuclear Medicine. She is also on the editorial
board of European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. She has
built the first PET-MR department in Turkey at Gazi University. Gazi University
Hospital Department of Nuclear Medicine is involved in a prospective,
multi-center study involving early Alzheimer's patients that will involve
amyloid imaging for the first time in Turkey. Prof. Atay is sayed " In
terms of neuroimaging, PET/MR technology will be the most important imaging
modality of the future, especially with the introduction of new
radiopharmaceuticals targeting pathological proteins, such as amyloid and tau.
Contact
- ozlematay@gazi.edu.tr
- Web Page
- https://avesis.gazi.edu.tr/ozlematay
- Office Phone
- +90 312 202 4544 Extension: 202 6161
- Address
- Gazi Üniversitesi Sağlık Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi Gazi Hastanesi / C Blok 1.kat Nükleer Tıp ABD. / Emniyet Mah.Mevlana Bulvarı No:29 Yenimahalle/ANKARA