JSCN2019

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[ISS-L5] Treatment 1

Sat. Jun 1, 2019 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM ISS Conference Room (Internatinal Conference Room, 3F, Bldg. 3)

Chair: Masahiro Hayakawa (Center for Maternal-Neonatal Care, Nagoya University Hospital, Japan), Ronit Pressler (Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health , UK)

[L-24] Approach to Neonatal Seizures at a Tertiary Hospital in Turkey

Dilek YALNIZOGLU (Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey)

Dilek Yalnizoglu, MD
Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine
Department of Pediatric Neurology
Ankara, Turkey

Dilek Yalnizoglu is a Professor in Pediatrics, and Pediatric Neurologist/Epileptologist at Hacettepe University Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatric Neurology in Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Yalnizoglu received her MD degree in 1989 at Ankara University Medical School in Ankara, Turkey. She completed her pediatric residency in 1994, and pediatric neurology fellowship in 1997, both at Hacettepe University Children’s Hospital, Ankara. She completed her training in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy between 1997-1999 at Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA. She worked as research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, Division of General Pediatrics through NIMH ICORTHA Fogarty International Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Research Training Program in 2003. She spent her sabbatical year at the Miami Children’s Hospital Brain Institute Comprehensive Epilepsy Program in the academic year 2011-2012.
Dr. Yalnizoglu has been working at Hacettepe University Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatric Neurology since 1999 as a staff member and she worked as the head of Department of Pediatric Neurology between 2013-2016.

Her primary area of clinical work and research are focused on complex epilepsies and epilepsy surgery in children. Additionally, her recent work extended to rare and undiagnosed neurometabolic/neurogenetic disorders.
Administratively, she served as an elected Board Member of the Turkish Child Neurology Society between 2012-2018. She is member of Turkish National Pediatrics Society, Turkish Epilepsy Society, Turkish Clinical Neurophysiology EEG-EMG Society-Ankara Branch, AOCNA, EPNS, ICNA and AES. She currently serves as a member of the EPNS Committee of National Advisors Training Advisory Board.

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