Iris (Polovina) Allajbeu PhD (Albania)
Radiologist
Chief of the Department of Advanced Imaging of American Hospital, Tirana
EDUCATION
1994-1998 “Mehmet Akif” Turkish college, TIRANA
1998-2004 Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Turkey
2004-2007 Radiology Residency, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana
2011-2015 PhD in Radiology, Department of Radiology
University Hospital Center Mother Teresa:
Topic: “Coronary CT Angiography and risk factors of coronary arteries disease in Albani
TRAININGS
February – May 2006 Neuroradiology Training (CT, RM) University Hospital, FATIH, Ankara
October 07 – March 08 Training in Cardiac Imaging (CT, RM) University Hospital, FATIH, Ankara
June 2008 Training in Cardiac Imaging (CT, RM) University Hospital Graz, Radiology Department, Austria
June 2009 Advanced/Follow up Cardiac Training Somatom Sensation 64, Siemens
ERASMUS COURSE on MAl-Central Nervous System, Amsterdam
October 2011 Advanced MRI of Breast and female pelvis- ESMRB, School of MRI, Istanbul, Turkey
PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
June 2008 – Organizer and lecturer in the seminar:
“Diagnostic methods and modern treatment of cardiac pathologies” Collaboration of American Hospital and University Hospital of Ankara, subject ” Magnetic Resonance and its applications in cardiology” , Tirana.
December 2008 – Coronary artery anomalies detected by MDCT; “Cardiac Imaging” seminar OMI Salzburg.
March 2009 – “Role of MRI in stadification, treatment plan and follow up of endometrial and cervical cancer”, 1st Albanian Congress of Obstretics and Gynaecology.
May 2009 – Organizer and lecturer in “Chest Imaging” International Seminar, collaboration between American Hospital of Tirana and Graz University Austria; topic: “Cardiac MRI- utility in assessment of myocardial viability”
November 2009 – Organizer and lecturer in “Cardiac Imaging” International seminar, collaboration between American Hospital of Tirana and Graz University Austria; topic: “CE Cardiac MRI – correlation between first- pass rest perfusion defects and amount of nonviable myocardium in DEMR images”
March 2010 – “Contrast-enhanced cardiac MRI in evaluation of myocardial viability after Ml correlation between first-pass rest perfusion defects and amount of nonviable myocardium in delayed enhancing MR images”. Poster presentation in European Congress of Radiology (ECR).
30 October 2010 – “CT of temporal bone” Vasili D, Allajbeu I, Cekrezi B, Vajushi E; Vlth Albanian Conference of Radiology.
25-27 March 2011 – “Contrast-enhanced Cardiac MRI in Evaluation of Myocardial viability after Ml” -AIIajbeu I, Cekrezi B, Cavalli R, Uymaz B, Xhabija N – in “7th International Congress of Update in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery” also published in the magazine: “International Journal of Cardiology” val. 147, supl. 2, March 2011.
May 2011 -“Role of cardiac CT angiography in the diagnosis of coronary arteries disease”,Vth Diagnostic Imaging Conference of Kosovo.
September 2011 – Referee in the Vl-th international meeting of Albscience institute: “Cardiac CT angiography in the diagnosis of subcfinic coronary arteries disease and correlation with the risk factors in Albanian patients”
29 October 2011 – “Cardiac CT angiography in the diagnosis of subclinic coronary arteries disease- our experience” VII th Albanian Imaging Conference.
October 2011 -International Symposium “Emergency Radiology”.
6 August 2012 – Vl-th International Meeting of Albscience Institute: “Cardiac CT angiography in the diagnosis of subclinic coronary arteries disease and correlation with the risk factors in Albanian patients. – continuing”
May 2013 – “Quantitative asssessment of extracoronary calcifications using coronary CT angiography may be helpful in predicting Coronary artery Disease”, Allajbeu I, Petrela E, Heba M, Xhabija N. 11th International Conference of Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging, Berlin/Germany, May 2013, also published in the magazine “Journal of Nuclear Cardiology” val. 20, ISSN 1071-3581.
August 2013 – “Cardiac CT angiography in the patients without calcifications of coronary arteries- our experience.- sth International Meeting of Albscience Institute.
September 2013- Seminar: Transesophageal Echocardiography
October 2013 – “Cardiac CT angiography in the patients without calcifications of coronary arteries”, Allajbeu I, Shahini A, Cekrezi B, Jata B, K. Preza- IX Annual Conference of Albanian Imaging Society, Tirana
June 2014- School of MRI-Advanced MR Imaging of Musculoskeletal System, Milan/Italy
March 2015- ECR Vienna.
April 2015 – “Contrast- enhanced Cardiac MRI in evaluation of myocardial viability after Ml Correlation between extent of nonviable myocardium and complications” Allajbeu I, Jata B, Nona A, Xhabija N, Meco S, Hajro E, Temali I, Eren N.T., Rienmueller R.; International Medical Congress in Albania (IMCA) I.
September 2016 – “The role of MRI in Diagnosis, treatment planning and follow -up in breast cancer” Allajbeu I, Koza B, Huti E, Cekrezi B, Shahini A, IMCA II.
September 2016- EUSOBI Annual Scientific Meeting, Paris.
March 2017- ECR Vienna.
September 2017- EUSOBI Annual Scientific Meeting, Berlin.
16-18 November 2017- Key lecturer and organiser of Breast Satellite Symposia and Advanced Radiology session, IMCA Ill, Tirana.
PUBLICATIONS
Isolated Cortriatriatum sin – incidental finding in an asymptomatic young adult- Allajbeu Polovina I, Eren NT- EURORAD, Cardiac Imaging, case 7718
The failure of fusion of Mullerian ducts with Uterus Didelphys and Vaginal duplication.
Allajbeu I, Dhima A, lsufi E,- EURORAD, Genital Imaging, case 7773
“Gerbode defect following endocarditis and misinterpreted as severe pulmonary arterial hypertension” Xhabija N, Prifti E, Allajbeu I and Sula F published in: “Cardiovascular Ultrasound”, vol.7, Issue 2, Pages e34-e36
“Diagnostic value of aortic sclerocalcifications for discriminating a high risk group with coronary arteries disease.” Bulletin of medical sciences 2011, vol.42
“New perfusion configuration in patient undergoing single stage ascending aortic and valve replacement and extranatomicasc. todesc. Aortic bypass due to aortic coarctation”- Bulletin of medical sciences no.3 vol.43, 2012
“Cardiac CT angiography, applications, indications and our experience in diagnosing subclinic atherosclerosis” Allajbeu I, Jata B, Temali I, Preza K, Bulletin of medical sciences, 2012, vol.43
“The Role of CT Angiography of Coronaries in Early Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Plaques in Albanian People with No History of Cardiovascular Disease in Correlation with Traditional Risk Factors” Allajbeu I, Hajro E, Temali I, Cekrezi B, Preza K published in MATER SOCIOMED.
2014 Jun; 26(3): 153-224, piSSN 1512-7680; eiSSN 1986-597X
“The prevalence of coronary artery plaques detected by CT angiography in Albanians with no history of cardiovascular disease in correlation with Ca score” Allajbeu I, Allajbeu K, Nona A, Shahini A, Muja H, Preza K. AMJ-Aibanian Medical Journal, nr.3-2014.
“The role of CT angiography of coronaries in early diagnosis of coronary artery disease in correlation with traditional risk factors in Albanians”, Allajbeu I, Nona A, Hajro E accepted for publication by WJCD-World Journal of Cardiovascular Disease; actually in process.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2004-2008 Radiology Resident, Dep. of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana
2016 … Lecturer at the Albanian Medical University, Division of Radiology
2008 … Radiology specialist, Division chief, Dep. of Radiology, American Hospital of Tirana
AREAS OF INTEREST
CT, MRI, Cardiac imaging, Musculoskeletal imaging
Breast imaging and invasive radiologic applications
MEMBERSHIP
ESR (European Society of Radiology) EUSOBI(European Society of Breast imaging) ESCR (European Society of Cardiac Radiology) RSNA (Radiologic Society of North America)
AAF (American Austrian Foundation)- Open Medical Institute
ESMRB (European Society of MR in Medicine and Biology) ASR (Albanian Society of Radiology)
LANGUAGE SKILLS
ALBANIAN (native) ENGLISH (very well) ITAllAN (very well) TURKISH (very well) FRENCH (well)