Ejder Akgün Yıldırım
Prof. Yıldırım graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine (English) in 1997. The same year, he started his psychiatry residency training in Bakırköy Research and Training Hospital in Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery and acquired his specialty in Psychiatry in March 2002. He was appointed to the psychotherapy unit as the supervisor psychiatrist on June 2002. He also completed his doctorate in Physiology in Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine in 2004. After the Marmara Earthquake incident in 1999, he worked as a director in Halıdere Healthcare Center of Turkish Medical Association. Throughout the period of starvation activity of the political convicts in many prisons of Turkey between 2000 and 2001, he was charged as an impartial doctor by Turkish Medical Association. He was accepted as a sex therapist trainer in Sexual Education Treatment and Research Association (i.e. CETAD) in 2005. He is the founder and coordinator of the first community based psychiatry center in Turkey in 2006. He also acquired psychodrama training specialization in 2009 He is a member of several associations such as Psychiatric Association of Turkey, Turkish Neuropsychiatric and worked in and academic groups of these associations. He is the chairman of the executive board in CETAD and a trainer and local coordinator of Psychodynamic Oriented Supportive Psychotherapies in Psychiatric Association of Turkey. He also continues his academic career in which he specifically focuses on individual and group psychotherapy, disaster psychiatry, psychological trauma, evolutionary neurobiology, sociometry and group dynamics. He has been working as the clinic chief of the Psychotherapy Treatment and Training Center in University of Health Sciences, Bakırköy Research and Training Hospital in Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery and he also works as a lecturer at Clinical Psychology Program of University of Health Sciences and a visiting lecturer at Trauma Program of Bilgi University.