Emel Ece Özcan-Ekşi
2001 - 2007 - Medical student ---------- Akdeniz University School of Medicine
2006 - 2007 - Erasmus exchange student ----- Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
2008 - 2013 - Residency ------Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Marmara University School of Medicine
2013 - 2015 - Spine scholarly research fellowship --- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA,
2015 -----------Education Comission for Foreign Medical Graduate = ECFMG; United States Medical Licencing Exam = USMLE (# 0-940-751-1)
2016-2018---- Physiatrist----- Antalya Atatürk State Hospital
2017 - ---------- European Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitiation (#2822)
2018-------------- Assistant professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabiliation, Bahçeşehir University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Memberships
Istanbul Medical Chamber (since 2009)
North American Spine Society (since 2014)
Turkish Sipne Society (since 2017)
International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) (since 2017)
American Association of Neurolectrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) (since 2017)
Honors and Awards
1. Award for the best residency grafuation thesis in Dr Cengiz Cetin, Residency Graduation Thesis Contest, March 14, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey: Lomber spinal stenozda denge bozukluğu ve paraspinal kas denerveasyonunun denge bozukluğuna etkileri, 2013 (Consultant: Prof Dr. İlker Yağcı)
2. American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R), The Best Podium Presentations in Pain and Spine Research, Nov 13-16, 2014, San Diego, CA: Özcan-Ekşi EE, Yağcı I, Erkal H, Demir-Deviren S. Balance Disorders in Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis and Effects of Paraspinal Muscle Denervation on Balance
3. The third place in posters, the 25th National Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Congress, April 22-26, 2015, Antalya, Turkey: Özcan-Ekşi EE, Şencan S, Tay B, Berven S, Burch S, Deviren V, Demir-Deviren S. The Effect Of Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections In Patients With Spondylolytic Spondylolisthesis
4. Special poster presentations, International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS), June Haziran 2015, San Francisco, CA: Demir-Deviren S, Özcan-Ekşi EE, Pekmezci M, Kapucu I, Eksi M, Tay B, Berven S. Burch S, Deviren V. Paraspinal Muscles and Sagittal Spinopelvic Alignment in Patients with Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
5. American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R), The Best Podium Presentations in Pain and Spine Research, Oct 1-4, 2015, Boston, MA: Özcan-Ekşi EE, Bal J, Carballido-Gamio J, Krug R, Berven S, Tay B, Lotz J, Demir-Deviren S. Negative Impact of Modic I Degenerative Disc Disease on Lumbar Paraspinal Muscles
6. Section on Minimally Invasive Procedures: Abstract Presentations; Best Papers, North American Spine Society, the 30th Annual Meeting, Oct 14-18, 2015, Chicago, IL: Sencan S, Özcan-Ekşi EE, Tay B, Berven S, Burch S, Deviren V, Demir-Deviren S. The effect of transforaminal epidural steroid injections in patients with spondylolisthesis
7. Award fort he second place in Emeritus Prof Dr Osman Cevdet Çubukçu Research Contest, 46th Traditional Çubukçu Days, Nov 27, 2015: Özcan-Ekşi EE, Yağcı I, Erkal H, Demir-Deviren S. Paraspinal Muscle Denervation and Balance Impairment In Lumbar Spinal Stenosis