Sukru Mehmet Erturk studied medicine at Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Istanbul University, and then completed a one-year certificate program in hospital management at the Institute of Business Administration of the same university. Mehmet started his specialty training in radiology at the Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital in 1998. In 2001, he was an observer at the Radiology Department of the Klinikum Grosshadern of Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich. Upon completing his training and his work as an attending radiologist at Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Mehmet moved to Boston and completed his fellowships in management in radiology and in abdominal radiology research between 2004 and 2006 at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, where he was also a lecturer in radiology. In 2007, he was elected as president of the Istanbul Chapter of the Turkish Society of Radiology and in 2009 he became the Secretary Generalof the same society, of which he is still an executive board member. Mehmet’s areas of research and interest include topics such as abdominal imaging, utilization management in radiology and health services, quality management in radiology and health services, medical education, health economics, and health informatics. He holds editorial and reviewer positions in various journals. Currently, he is Professor of Radiology and Chairman of Radiology Department at Adiyaman University, Turkey.Tomoaki Ichikawa is Associate Professor and Chief of the Diagnostic Radiology Division, Department of Radiology, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan. His principal area of interest is hepatobiliary CT/MR imaging. Dr. Ichikawa completed his medical studies at the Graduate School of Medicine and School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan in 1988 and subsequently specialized in Radiology. In 1998 he became a Research Fellow in the Division of Abdominal Radiology, Department ofRadiology,University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA. He was subsequently appointed Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor and Head of the Abdominal Imaging Division in the Department of Radiology at University of Yamanashi. In 2004 he became Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He took up his present post in 2006. Dr. Ichikawa is an editorial board member and reviewer for the journal Investigative Radiology. He has published approximately 90 publications in peer-reviewed English language journals.
