YILDIZ DEĞİRMENCİ

YILDIZ DEĞİRMENCİ

Professor of Neurology, head of Neurology Department in Istanbul Health and Technology Univeristy, Istanbul

YILDIZ DEĞİRMENCİ

She is Professor of Neurology, head of Neurology Department in Istanbul Health and Technology Univeristy, Istanbul, Turkey, and runningthe Parkinson’ s Disease and Movement Disorders Unit in Medicana Zincirlikuyu Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. Her main research areas are device-aided therapies in movement disorders including infusion therapies and deep brain stimulation. She currently serves as an Executive Committee Member of the International Movement Dİsorders Society-European Section  (MDS-ES), member of the non-motor Parkinsons’ s Disease, Tremor Scientific panels of MDS and Neurosurgery Special Interet Group of MDS. She serves as the committee member of the Movement Disorders Scientific Panel of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN). She serves as an Associate Editor in the e-Learning platform of European Academy of Neurology (EAN). Nationwide,  she serves as the  scientific panel member of Turkish Parkinson’ s Disease Society and task force member of Movement Disorders and Dementia in the Turkish Neurological Society. She completed her movement disorders clinical trainings and fellowships under the supervision of Prof Kailash Bhatia in Queen Square, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK. She had functional neurology/neurosurgery trainings including the device-aided treatments in movement disorders such as infusion therapies and deep brain stimulation with direct-indirect targeting, planning, and DBS programming under the supervision of Prof Patricia Limousine at the unit of Functional Neurosurgery, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK. Focusing on deep brain stimulation, she worked as a visiting Professor in the Functional Neurosurgery/Deep Brain Stimulation Unit of Umea University, University Hospital of Northern Sweden under the supervision of Prof Patrick Blomstedt, and Prof Marwan Hariz working on direct-indirect targeting and planning for DBS, experiencing surgical procedures including Parkinson’ s disease, various types of tremor, dystonia , and postoperative DBS programming.