Consultant
Mayo Clinic
Aysegul Ozerdem, MD, PhD is a Professor of Psychiatry in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. She holds a consultant position in the Mayo Clinic Department of Psychiatry & Psychology. She received her medical degree from Ankara University Medical School in 1985, completed her residency in Psychiatry in 1995 at Department of Psychiatry, Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey. She worked as a research fellow under Fogarty scholarship at NIMH, Bethesda, MD, Section on Clinical Psychopharmacology, Experimental Therapeutics Branch from 1992-1994. She was made Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in 1998, Associate Professor of Psychiatry in 2000 and Professor of Psychiatry in 2006 at Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey, where she worked until joining Mayo Clinic in 2020. She obtained a PhD degree in Biophysics in 2008. She is recipient of a number of research grants and awards. She authored and co-authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. Dr. Ozerdem’s research focuses on biological/clinical markers of risk, course of illness and treatment response in mood disorders involving molecular, genomic, neurocognitive and imaging studies. Sex difference in neurobiology of mood disorders is a special focus of her studies.
