UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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A.TARIK YILMAZ, MD, Professor of Psychiatry
Chief of Academics and Science, French Lape Psychiatric Hospital
Founding Director, Institute of Peak-RPEM Studies, French Lape Psychiatric Hospital
POSITIONS
Clinical, Management and Educational Positions:
2019 – present Chief of Academics and Science, French Lape Psychiatric Hospital
2019 – present Founding Director, Institute of Peak-RPEM Studies, French Lape Psychiatric Hospital
2008 – present Founding Director, Center for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Clinical Practice and Peak RPEM Studies), Istanbul, Turkey
2013 – 2015 Medical Director, French Lape Psychiatric Hospital
2013 – 2015 Founding Director, Psychological Crisis Intervention Center for Syrian Refugees of IOC, Kilis, Turkey
2011 – 2013 Founding Director, Psychosocial Trauma and Crisis Intervention Center for Post-earthquake Support, Van, Turkey
2001 – 2012 Chair, Department of Psychiatry, I. Bilim University, School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
2001 – 2005 Supervisor of Residents and Specialists, Department of Psychiatry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1999 – 2001 Director, Social Psychiatry and Psychology Division, University of Basel, School of Medicine, Basel, Switzerland
1999 – 2001 Deputy Head, Department of Psychiatry, University of Basel, School of Medicine, Basel, Switzerland
1996 – 2001 Director, Cultural Psychiatry Division, University of Basel, School of Medicine, Basel, Switzerland
1992 – 2001 Head Physician, Psychiatric Crisis Intervention Center, University of Basel, School of Medicine, Basel, Switzerland
1999 – 2000 Guest Lecturer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich), Zürich, Switzerland, Heidelberg University, School of Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
1998 Visiting Scholar, Research Center on the Psychobiology of Ethnicity, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA
Scientific Commissions and Boards:
2015 – present Member, EPA Section Suicidology and Suicide Prevention, European Psychiatric Association
2016 – 2019 Member, Advisory Board of Columbia Global Centers Istanbul, Columbia University, New York, USA
2006 – 2018 Coordinator, Crisis Intervention Scientific Group, Turkish Psychiatric Association
1992 – 2001 Member of Board of Directors, University of Basel, School of Medicine, Basel, Switzerland
2001 Scientific Consultant, Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland
2000 – 2001 Member, Neuroscience Program, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1999 – 2001 President, Multicultural Foundation for Addictive Behavior Counseling, Basel, Switzerland
EDUCATION
1991 – 1992 Resident, Department of Psychiatry, University of Basel, School of Medicine, Basel, Switzerland
1987 – 1991 Specialization in Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
1980 – 1986 School of Medicine, Trakya University, Istanbul, Turkey
1974 – 1980 International German School (Istanbul Erkek Lisesi), Istanbul, Turkey
MAIN RESEARCH:
Mental Disorders and Peak Reward Prediction Error Memories (Peak RPEMs):
Main focus of research includes:
- Positive Valence Systems and Psychopathology,
- Episodic Memories of Aberrant Salient Reward Experiences,
- Incentive Salience and Associative Learning,
- Reward Prediction Error Dependent Memory Encoding,
- Predictive Processing and Maladaptive Plasticity,
- Associative Connections between Peak RPEMs and Cardinal Symptoms and Mental Imageries in Clinical Setting
Ongoing Research Projects:
- Psychopathology and Peak Reward Prediction Error Memories (Peak RPEMs):
Analysis of associative and contextual connection between symptoms of psychosis
(delusions and hallucinations) and episodic memories of aberrant salient
reward experiences.
Collaboration with Dost Öngür, MD, PhD, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
- Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors and Peak RPEMs.
Examination of associative and contextual connections between mental imageries
of suicidal thoughts and behavior (STB) and episodic memories of aberrant salient
reward experiences.
- Obsessions, Compulsions and peak RPEMs
Evaluation of associative and contextual connections between compulsions, obsessions,
mental imageries of harm obsessions and episodic memories of aberrant
salient reward experiences. Role: PI.