Cengiz Kılıç

Dr. Cengiz Kılıç has graduated from Istanbul University Medical School in 1984. He completed specializing in psychiatry in 1992 at Hacettepe University. During his residency training, he joined Prof. Isaac Marks’ unit at the Institute of Psychiatry, London for a year in 1991. After the major earthquakes in 1999, he worked as research and clinical supervisor in an international project led by University of London. He completed a PhD program at the Institute of Psychiatry and received a PhD degree in 2004. His PhD thesis was on predictors of psychiatric disorders caused by the earthquake. His also examined positive psychological changes in earthquake survivors. He was a member of the “International Consortium for Psychiatric Epidemiology” headed by Prof. Ron Kessler (from Harvard University) between 1996-1999, and is currently a member of the World Mental Health Initiative headed by Prof. Kessler. 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”. His main research interests are in the area of anxiety disorders, traumatic stress and psychiatric epidemiology. He is associate editor of two scientific journals: the Turkish Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of Traumatic Stress. He is currently professor of psychiatry, working full-time at the psychiatry department of Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara. He is the founder and current director of Stress Assessment and Research Center (STAR) at Hacettepe University. As a member of the academic staff, he takes part in education directed both to students and residents, in addition to clinical work.