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Turkish American Doctors Association of Midwest
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Past Event :
Tayfun Ozgen MD, family physician from Edward Medical Group, gave a lecture about "Adult Preventive Health".
 
Dr. Ozgen atressed importance of routine physical exams and
talked about most recent recommendations for cancer and cardiovascular screening. At the end of the lecture there was a question and answer session.  contact@tadam.org
 
Doctor's Corner_____
Doruk Erkan, MD
CATASTROPHIC
ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME
dorukerkan@tadam.org
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Yesim Gulecyuz, MD
yesimgulecyuz@tadam.org
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Sefer Gezer, MD
sefergezer@tadam.org
Kan pihtilasmasi nedir?
Olusmasi nasil engellenir?
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Tayfun Ozgen, MD
tayfunozgen@tadam.org
ADULT PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE
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Mehmet Sipahi, MD
mehmetsipahi@tadam.org
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Mehmet Gulecyuz, MD
mehmetgulec@tadam.org
Children's Memorial Hospital
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Canan Korkmaz
Hurriyet USA
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Tadam Picnic
JUNE 30, 2007
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Tadam Boat Tour
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Hakan Ali Toker,
Hon. Naci Koru and
Munci Kalayoglu MD
2006 3rh Tadam Annual Ball
 
Hakan ALi Toker
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Starting September TADAM's Monthly Lecture Series
 
Community Lectures planned starting September 2007 in
English and Turkish monthly by TADAM physicians on Screening Tests for Women and Pap Smears, Childhood Obesity,
Preventive Medicine, Headache, Sleep Apnea, Breast and Colon Cancer, Back Pain, Allergy,
Menopause and Osteoporosis, Development and Concerns of Teenagers
 
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August 11, 2007  - TADAMCruise under the Moonlight

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CV

Meltem BALLAN

Florida Atlantic University

Phone:561.305 9983

http://www.ccs.fau.edu/section_links/HBBLv2/index.html

Interest Areas:

EEG Dynamics in behavioural tasks

Simultaneous EEG and FMRI measurements

Data Analysis

Biometric Identification (fingerprint, face)

Smart-card based Authentication

(handheld bioId terminal)(product details:http://www.ttgint.com/mamel.asp)

Pattern Recognition, Radar Image Processing

Continued Projects:

Combining the Methodology of EEG data with fMRI and single EEG data.

Professional Experience:

   

2004-2006

University of Groningen, Behavioural and Cognitive Science Department, Groningen, The Netherlands, Researcher

2001-2004

Information Technologies Research Institute, Scientific and Technological Research Council of TURKEY (TUBITAK)-Marmara Research Centre, Gebze, Kocaeli, TURKEY, Business Development Team Leader(Executive)

2000-2001

Information Technologies Research Institute, Scientific and Technological Research Council of TURKEY (TUBITAK)-Marmara Research Centre, Gebze, Kocaeli, TURKEY, Researcher&Project Manager

1997 –2000

Information Technologies Research Institute, Scientific and Technological Research Council of TURKEY (TUBITAK)-Marmara Research Centre, Gebze, Kocaeli, TURKEY, Researcher

1996

Information Technologies Institute, TUBITAK, Assistant Researcher, Ankara, TURKEY (part-time)

1995-1996

BRISA Bridgestone & Sabanci Tire Manufacturing Inc., R&D Dept., Internship, Kocaeli, TURKEY (part-time)

Education:

2006-

Ph.D. Candidate in Brain Science, Florida Atlantic University, Center for Complex System and Brain Science, Boca Raton, Florida

1997-2000

M.S. in Computer Engineering, Gebze Institute of Technology and Bogazici University, Istanbul, TURKEY (Honour Degree)

1993-1997

B.S. Electronics and Communication Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY

Languages:

Turkish (Mother Language), English (Current Academic and Daily Language), Dutch (Intermediate)

Computer Programming Skills:

HTML, Visual Basic, Matlab, Borland C ++ Builder, Windows, UNIX and Linux Operating System and Network Management, Fortran, E-PRIME, SPM (fMRI), BVA(EEG).

Memberships and Fellowships:

Nonlinear Dynamics and Brain Science Summer School Award, FAU,Florida, USA and CNRS, Marseille, France.

Research Fellow at Computing Dept. of Macquarie University (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Visiting Researcher at University of Queensland (Queensland, AUSTRALIA)

Electrical Engineers Association of Turkey (EMO)

Information Association of Turkey (TBD)

IAPR Technical Committee-2 (Syntactical Pattern Recognition)

Image Processing Association (IMGE) of Turkey

Biometric Consortium

Senior B.Sc. Thesis Award, YTU, Istanbul

Publications:

Technical Reports

"Smart Card Applications Prototype Implemented at the Information Technologies Research Institute," Assoc. Prof. Bilge Günsel, M.Sc. Eng. Meltem Ballan, Eng. Umut Uludağ, Eng. Murat Güncan, Nov. 2000, TUBITAK-MRC, Gebze, Turkey.

“Smart Card ID Card and Hand Held System Prototype”, Meltem Ballan, Alper Çabuk, Aug. 2001 TUBITAK-MRC, Gebze, Turkey.

“Vehicle Mounted Land Mine Detection System”, Jun. 2000, TUBITAK-MRC,Gebze Turkey.

Journal Papers (citation)

M. Ballan, F. Gurgen, “On The Principal Component Based Fingerprint Classification Using Directional Images”, Mathematical and Computational Applications, Vol 4, No 2, 91-97, 1999.

M. Ballan, F. Gurgen, C. Akyel, " General Fingerprint Recognition Algorithms ", Galatasaray University Engineering Sciences, submitted (in Turkish with English Abstract).

Conference Papers (citation)

U.Uludag, B.Gunsel, M.Ballan,”A spatial method for watermarking of fingerprint images”, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems,PRIS 2001,ICEIS Press,July 2001,pp.26 –33.

M. Ballan, B. Günsel, “Reliable Access to Data with Smart Card Technologies”, SASAD’2000, pp.323-328, Nov. 2000, Ankara, Turkey.

M. Ballan. F. Gürgen, “An Intelligent Fuzzy Data Driven System For Class Decision of Limited Data”, IEEE ISCIS’2000, pp. 518-523, Oct. 2000 Istanbul, Turkey.

M. Ballan, F. Gürgen, " Dimension Reduced Multi-dimensional Data Classification using nearest neighbourhood method and fuzzy decision ", IEEE SIU'00, pp.716-720, 2000, Belek, Antalya, Turkey.

M. Ballan. F. Gürgen, "2D Ground Penetrating Radar Data Identification", Proc. SPIE Vol. 4084, p. 630-634, Eighth International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar,, Queensland, Australia.

M. Ballan, Fikret Gürgen, “Gradient Based Fingerprint Verification Using Principal Components” IEEE IMACS’99 (CD), 1999, Athena, Greece .

M. Ballan, F. Gürgen, “On the Relationship of Nearest Neighbour Concept and Fuzzy Membership ”, IEEE ISCIS’99, pp. 381-386, Oct. 18-20,1999, Kusadasi, Turkey.

M. Ballan, F. Gürgen, “On The Principal Component Based Fingerprint Classification Using Directional Images”, IEEE ISCIS’99, pp. 941-948, Oct.18-20,1999, Kusadasi, Turkey.

M. Ballan, “Directional fingerprint processing” ICSP '98, Fourth International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, Vol. 2 , pp. 1064 -1067, 1998.

M. Ballan, F. A. Sakarya, B. L. Evans, "A Fingerprint Classification Technique Using Directional Images'', Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 1, pp. 101-104, Nov. 3-5, 1997, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.

Thesis

Undergraduate:

Awarded as Senior Project: AFIS Archives Preparing and Methods of Directional Image Senior Project , Yildiz Technical University, 1997.

Master:

2 new Approaches to Fingerprint Recognition Algorithms, Gebze Institute of Technology, 2000.

Seminars

“Fingerprint Identification Applications”, July 2000, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

"Introduction Of The Marmara Research Centre-Information Technologies Research Institute And Some Statistical Approach On The GPR Data", Sept. 1999, Co-Operative Research Centre, Queensland, Australia.

"How can We Apply Decision Trees on The GPR data and Fingerprints", Aug. 1999, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

"Introduction of the Marmara Research Centre-Information Technologies Research Institute and General Fingerprint and GPR Data Applications ", Aug. 1999, NSW University, Sydney, Australia.

“Classification Of Some Simulation Data By Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques (Iris, wine, cancer) ”, Jun. 1999, Gebze Institute of Technology, Gebze, Turkey.

“Classification Of The Simulation Data (Iris, Wine, Lung Cancer) And GPR Data With Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques”, Jun. 1999,TUBITAK-MRC, Gebze, Turkey.

“Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems “Jan. 1998, TUBITAK-MRC, Gebze, Turkey.

Courses and Seminars Related to Current Research Areas

fMRI (Functional Magnetic Brain Imaging) Theory and Applications, EEG Theory and Applications (Electroencephalogram), Introductory Behavioural and Cognitive Science, Brain Vision Analyzer Workshop, Philosophy of Neuroscience.

Extracurricular Activities:

Latin Mix, Golf, Tango, Tennis, Squash.

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