EP #229 - 02.26.2021 - COVID-19, Disaster and, Mental Health in Turkey

Today is a discussion COVID-19 and mental health in Turkey with Dr. Cengiz Kılıç.

Dr. Cengiz Kılıç graduated from Istanbul University Medical School in 1984, and did his residency training at Hacettepe University. He is currently professor of psychiatry, working full-time at the psychiatry department of Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara.

As a member of the academic staff, he takes part in education directed both to students and residents, in addition to clinical work. His main clinical and research interests are in the area of anxiety disorders, traumatic stress, psychiatric assessment and epidemiology. After the major earthquakes of 1999 in Turkey, he took part as research and clinical supervisor in an international project led by University of London, Institute of Psychiatry, where he also completed his PhD. He was the principal investigator of the first nationally representative epidemiological survey, the “Mental Health Profile of Turkey”, and co- PI of the World Mental Health Survey-Turkey. He is associate editor of two scientific journals: the Turkish Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of Traumatic Stress.