She received honorary membership in the American Society of Neuroradiology in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the eld of neuroradiology. In 2021, she was named “most inuential radiology researcher” by AuntMinnie Europe. In 2022, she received a senior fellowship from both the ESMRMB and the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in London for her groundbreaking work at the intersection of technical innovation and clinical neuroradiology. She received many awards and grants. In 2007, she received the Lourens Penning Prize and in 2023 a Vici personal grant from ZonMw.

AysenurCila and IsilSaatci

Zerrin Yetkin from Ege University in İzmir and Canan Erzen from Ankara University took on pioneering roles in neuroradiology. In their residencies, they started working primarily with CT, but their close collaboration with neurosurgeons led them to take up neuroradiology, turning them into experts in their eld. Professor Yetkin has spearheaded the functional MRI and resting-state functional MRI at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and still works at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Professor Erzen worked in Hacettepe University (Ankara) and Marmara University (Istanbul), where she contributed heavily to both research and the education of new generations of neuroradiologists till her retirement.

Isil Saatci (Fig. 24.8), who did her neuroradiology fellowship at Georgetown University, USA, in 1991–1992, was the rst female to do a formal neuroradiology fellowship and continued her career in Turkey. In Hacettepe University, where she had graduated from Medical School and had done her residency, she rst started to work both in interventional and diagnostic neuroradiology, pediatric neuroradiology in particular, and had many publications. With the increasing workload of interven­tional neuroradiology, she became dedicated to interventional neuroradiology and created advanced endovascular treatment techniques. International workshops were organized in her institution in which she trained many physicians in these treatment techniques. For many years, she has been travelling worldwide to train neurointerven­tionists in advanced cerebral aneurysm and AVM treatments. After several years of international live case workshops (Anatolian Course of Interventional Neuroradiology between 2006 and 2008; co-partner with LINNC 2009–2011), she and her colleagues started the World Live Neurovascular Conference (WLNC) in 2013, which rotates around the world, being held in a different continent every year to serve for the educa­tion and training in the eld of interventional neuroradiology. She is among the founders of CREF (Cerebrovascular Research and Education Foundation), which supports neurointerventionists with limited nancial resources. She took part in

several international studies and worked as the Section Editor of Interventional Neuroradiology in the NEURORADIOLOGY for several years. Currently, she is an Associate Editor of Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery (JNIS). She is the Chair of Interventional Neuroradiology in European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR) executive committee. She is organizing courses, webinars worldwide and participat­ing in international meetings, serving to the purpose of INR training.