Prof. Dr. Ertuğrul Köroğlu was born in İzmir. He graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1982; held teaching positions in psychiatry at Gazi and Kocaeli universities and completed a fellowship in clinical psychiatry and sleep disorders at Baylor College of Medicine, USA. He became Associate Professor in 1991 and Professor at age 39.
He sees patients at psychiatry centres in Ankara Kavaklıdere, Istanbul Levent and Ataşehir. He led the DSM-5 Turkish translation and SCID-5 validation study and is editor-in-chief of the Psychiatry Textbook and Psychotherapy Methods. He was selected as International Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association.