Dr. Rabia Bilici, from İstanbul, Turkey, received a bachelor’s degree in medicine in 1999 from İstanbul University İstanbul Medical Faculty. After graduating, she completed her psychiatric residency between 2002-2007. In 2012, she founded the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research, Treatment and Education Center at Erenköy Mental Health and Neurological Diseases Research and Training Hospital. In 2017, she began working as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Health Sciences. She is the founding director of a doctoral program as the head of the Practice and Research Center on the Fight against Addiction. Previously, Dr. Bilici worked as the Drug Addiction Plan Coordinator for the Republic of Turkey’s Ministry of Health. She is also the founder of the first outpatient rehabilitation center for adults with substance use disorder (SUD) in Turkey. There she established a mother-baby unit for women with SUD. She was a chief physician at Erenkoy Mental Health Hospital between 2016-2020. Dr. Bilici brings experience working on many projects with the World Health Organization and is a member of the Green Crescent Science Board. Bilici, who won a scholarship to the Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Program in the 2020-2021 academic year, completed her studies in the field of addiction at Virginia Commonwealth University.