Epidemiology

Aykut Ozden MD was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey. After completing medical school at Hacettepe University and psychiatry residency at University of Ankara, he moved to USA in 1997 to pursue his career here. He completed psychiatry residency and addiction psychiatry fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University, NY Psychiatric Institute. He became board-certified in all three areas and has also become an active member of ASAM and AACAP. Dr. Ozden has worked closely with adolescents who were dually-diagnosed, as well patients with cannabis and opioid use disorders. Being a child and adolescent psychiatrist and an addiction psychiatrist, his focus and main interest has been teenagers with a variety of substance use disorders, as well as prevention of developing addictions. He has published and presented since early 1990's and currently works at Mt. Sinai St. Luke's and Mt. Sinai Roosevelt hospital as the director of Comprehensive Assessment Center. He is also the associate director of child and adolescent psychiatry division in the psychiatry department at the same hospital. Dr. Ozden is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.