Prof. Hacer Özgen Narcı

Hacer Özgen Narcı graduated with honors from Health Vocational High School in 1986 and practiced nursing for 6 years. She completed her undergraduate education at Hacettepe University, School of Health Administration, and her master's degree in Health Institutions Management at Hacettepe University. She completed her doctoral studies in the field of Health Services Organization and Research at Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States of America in 2000, with a scholarship from Hacettepe University. She received the title of Associate Professor in the field of Management and Organization. Her dissertation, in which she examined the factors affecting the technical efficiency of dialysis centers using Industrial Organization Theory, was awarded "The James W. Begun" award as the Best PhD Study of 2001. The technical efficiency measurement model she developed is a reference source in international studies. Özgen Narcı, who has national and international articles, books and book chapters, serves as a referee in many national and international journals. Together with Harvard University faculty members, she took part in the team that prepared Türkiye’s first National Health Accounts and conducted the first study on informal out-of-pocket health expenditures in Türkiye. She worked as a manager, researcher and consultant in many national and international research projects sponsored by TÜBİTAK, the Ministry of Health and the Turkish Statistical Institute. Over the 20 years, she has given various courses at undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, as well as training on national and international platforms. Between 2012 and 2017, she served as Head of the Department of Health Management at Acıbadem University and Istanbul Medipol University. Between 2017 and 2019, she worked as the Founding Head of the Department of Health Management at Istinye University and Head of the Department of Health Systems and Management at Duquesne University in the United States. Özgen Narcı, who rejoined the ISU family in August 2020, serves as the Head of the Department of Health Management.