Born in 1952 in Merzifon, Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan graduated from Kuleli Military High School in 1969 and Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine in 1975. After GATA internship, Cyprus and Bursa military service, he became a Psychiatry Specialist at GATA in 1982. After working as a hospital physician in Erzincan and Çorlu, he became Assistant Professor (1988) and Associate Professor (1990) at GATA Haydarpaşa. He worked as a clinical director. He was promoted to Colonel (1993) and Professor (1996). Between 1996 and 1999, he worked as a lecturer at Yüzüncü Yıl University and as an expert witness at the Forensic Medicine Institute. He retired voluntarily. In 1998, he received the Memory Center of America's representation in Turkey. In 2006, he founded NPISTANBUL Hospital and in 2011, he donated all his assets and founded Üsküdar University.
Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan has transferred his knowledge in psychiatry expertise, which he has continued for many years with great effort and research, to nearly 250 research articles, 111 of which are within the scope of WoS (Web of Science), and nearly 90 books and book chapters. With a Google Scholar h-index of 33 and i10 index of 77, Prof. Tarhan's publications have been cited nearly 4000times. Thanks to these works, he has reached a readership of more than one million readers in Turkey who follow him both in visual and print media. Some of his books have been translated into Bulgarian, Indonesian, Iranian, Iranian, Albanian and Azeri languages besides English.
Prof. Tarhan carries out his work with great seriousness and sensitivity. The main factor underlying his hard work and achievements is his philosophy of life and his faith perspective. His view of life, which is not limited to the world but encompasses both the world and the hereafter, stems from his awareness that he is in the presence of his Creator while performing every task. This is his way of presenting the principles of faith based on verification, observation and proof to his readers by establishing a connection between God's attributes reflected in the universe and science under the witness of the universe. He is one of the rare scholars who succeeded in explaining the universe and the Qur'an in a way that supports each other. In addition to succeeding in reducing his identity as a scientist to his life, he has adopted the principle of carrying and transmitting the truths he has learned to others.
The source of the foundations of this different perspective is the Holy Qur'an, which he has been reading and guiding his life since his youth. Like young people who question the meaning of life and existence, he shared with his readers the answers to questions such as "accidental existence, the meaning of life, Darwinism, why does evil exist, the need for religion, the psychology of believing, is there life after death, how does the mind and soul of man find fulfillment?" with explanations from the Qur'an and by proving them with scientific research.
Prof. Tarhan, who is a psychiatrist and closely observes social life, always mentions the importance of "Community Psychology"in the media by analyzing social life correctly.
Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan, whose characteristics are not limited to what we have written above, has always aimed to invest in people and has used his material and spiritual resources in this direction. The majority of the society witnesses all that he has done. He expresses with his behavior and actions that he will continue to pursue the same goals under the perspective of faith until the end of his life.
Prof. Dr. Tarhan donates all his income to the TARHAN - İDER Foundation, of which he is the founder, and his books have sold more than 1 millioncopies. He speaks English and German. He is the father of two children. His family tree going back 1400 years was published as a book in 2017.
Currently, he is the Founding Rector and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Üsküdar University and Chairman of the Board of Directors of NPISTANBUL Hospital, Turkey's first neuropsychiatric hospital.
Üsküdar University, which he founded by donating all his assets without using any public resources and allocations, continues its activities as a "brain base" where future Nobel candidate scientists are trained with more than 24 thousand students. The University successfully represents our country in the world as the first and only Turkish university to participate in the G20/N20 Summits with the global perspective of Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan and his team.
The presentations made by the experts of Üsküdar University and NPISTANBUL Brain Hospital, led by Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan, in the field of "Computational Psychiatry and Future Perspectives" at the 2020 congress of the American Psychiatry Association (APA), one of the most prestigious psychiatric associations in the world, were determined as one of the 12 courses offered by APA to its members every month in 2021.
