Prof. Dr Isil Saatci (Cekirge)
Professor of Neuroradiology
Prof Saatchi is currently working as a neurointerventionist in Koru Hospitals in Ankara, Turkey.
Işıl Saatçi Çekirge, MD, graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1987. She received her Radiology specialty from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1992. She continued her education in Neuroradiology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and worked there as a research assistant.
She received her Radiology specialty from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1992, and after working as an Assistant Professor from 1992 to 1996, she became an Associate Professor in 1996 and a full Professor in 2003. Until 2014, she taught as a Professor at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine.
Throughout her academic career, she has written many academic articles and provided numerous educational activities both nationally and internationally. She currently continues to work with her patients at Koru Ankara Hospital.
Dr.Saatci was also the first woman to specifically practise INR in her country and played a significant role, not only in establishing this speciality in Turkey, but also in advancing this field across the whole world as one of the pioneers of contemporary INR. Over the course of almost three decades in INR, another of Saatci’s major accomplishments involved founding and organising the World Live Neurovascular Conference (WLNC), which has been held since 2013 in a different continents each year.
• She is also one of the founders of Cerebrovascular Research and Education Foundation (CREF) and acts in the board of directors.
• Dr Saatci has more than 150 international publications and over 9200 citations in English literature to those publications.
