Levent Küey, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Secretary General, World Psychiatric Association

Born in 1957; Medical Doctor in 1981; Specialist of Psychiatry in 1985; Associate Professor of Psychiatry in 1989; Assistant Therapist in Psychodrama Group Psychotherapy in 1993. Work, research and teaching experiences for nearly 30 years in different psychiatric institutional settings, currently practicing, teaching and supervising in Psychology Department of Istanbul Bilgi University and in private practice. Main fields of research and publication are depressive and anxiety disorders, psychiatric epidemiology, case formulation, social and cultural psychiatry, psychopathology, diagnosis and classification. Author of over 50 scientific journal articles. Author and translator of numerous books and book chapters. Research award of the Turkish Journal of Psychiatry, in 1997. Past editor and current member of the scientific board of the leading national and some international journals of psychiatry. Founder member and past Executive Committee member of the Psychiatric Association of Turkey. Past member of the Honorary Board of the Turkish Medical Association-Izmir Branch. Honorary Member of WPA; Member of the WPA Sections on Classification and Diagnossis and Public Policy and Psychiatry; Co-chair of the WPA Standing Committee on Planning. A co-opted member of the European Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK. Member of the Evaluation Committee in Psychiatry for the UEMS-EACCME (European Union of Medical Specialists-European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education). Secretary General and/or Organizing and Scientific Committee Member in nearly 40 national and international scientific meetings. Lecturer/speaker at over 40 international and 50 national scientific meetings.

Bal:

Giriş: 1968

AFS gidiş 1974 (Lise 2) (Illinois, ABD)

Mezuniyet: 1975

Ege tıp: 1975-1981

Psikiyatri uzmanlık eğitimi: Ege Tıp Psikiyatri Anabilim Dalı: 1981-1985

Doçentlik: 1989

2000’den beri Istanbul’da yaşıyor. Halen Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nde Öğretim üyesi ve serbest psikiyatr olarak çalışıyor.

Evli, Cansu ve Deniz adında iki çocuğu var. Kızı Cansu, Bilkent Üniversitesi Moleküler Biyoloji-Genetik Bölümünde öğrenci, Oğlu Deniz ise, ilkokul birinci sınıfta, okuma yazmayı sökmeye çalışıyor.