Orhan Nalcioglu (left) with Randy Brill during the presentation ceremony at the MIC banquet in Lyon last October
ORHAN NALCIOGLU
2000 RICHARD F. SHEA AWARD
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Orhan Nalcioglu (left) with Randy Brill during the presentation ceremony at the MIC banquet in Lyon last October |
The 2000 Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society was presented to Orhan Nalcioglu from the University of California - Irvine on October 19 at the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference in Lyon, France together with the IEEE Third Millennium Medal that he had received earlier in 2000. The citation for the Shea Award was, “For pioneering research in medical imaging and for outstanding service to the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of the IEEE.”
Orhan graduated with the Bachelor’s degree from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey in 1966. He then received his Master’s from Case-Western Reserve University in 1968, and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1970, all in physics. After working at the University of California – Davis, University of Rochester, and University of Wisconsin in physics, he joined the University of California – Irvine (UCI) in 1977 where he now holds the position of Professor of Radiological Sciences, Electrical Engineering, and Physics. He also serves as the Director of the Health Sciences Research Imaging Center at UCI where novel medical imaging instrumentation and techniques are developed and used in biomedical research. Since 1975 his research has been in the development of medical imaging systems and image based measurement techniques for medical research and patient healthcare. He has worked in computed tomography (CT), SPECT, PET, digital subtraction angiography (DSA), magnetic resonance imaging, and spectroscopy, and more recently in optical imaging. He has published a large number of papers in addition to co-authoring/editing several books on medical imaging. He has trained a great number of students and postgraduate researchers many of whom are now established researchers in the field of medical imaging in their own right.
He became a member of the IEEE in 1978 and organized the first International Workshop in Physics and Engineering in Computed Tomography at New Port Beach, California in 1979 with Z. H. Cho and G. Knoll under the co-sponsorship of the NPSS. Since that time he has contributed to the NPSS in many different capacities by serving as, Chairman Nuclear Medical Sciences Committee (1985-1987), Elected member of ADCOM (1991 - 1994), Vice President NPSS (1992), President NPSS (1993-1994), General Chairman of the Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (1996 and 1999) to name a few. He also played a significant role in the formation of the IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging that has become the premier journal in this field.
In 1988 he was elected to the fellow grade of the IEEE in recognition of his contributions to the field of medical imaging with the citation, “ For contributions to image science and for fundamental work in digital x-ray imaging, x-ray and nuclear magnetic resonance tomography.” In addition to being a fellow of the IEEE, he is also an elected fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Orhan is especially honored to receive this award since he had the opportunity to work with Dick Shea on many occasions while he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science (TNS). In working with Dick, Orhan organized several special issues of the IEEE TNS on medical imaging that helped to strengthen the medical imaging activities of the NPSS and ultimately resulting in the Technical Committee in Nuclear Medical and Imaging Science within the society.
Dr. Orhan Nalcioglu may be reached at the Health Sciences Research Imaging Center/College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-5020; Phone: +1 949 824-6001; Fax: +1 949 824-3481; E-mail: nalci@uci.edu.