Dr. Mete earned a bachelor's degree in Management Engineering, with a specialization in Economics and Mathematics, from Istanbul Technical University and received a PhD in Political Science, with emphasis on statistical methods, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University and University of Georgia. She taught public policy, statistics and research methods at Georgetown University as a visiting professor and at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) as an adjunct faculty. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry’s Research Division and manages the Biostatistics Department at MedStar Health Research Institute.
Dr. Mete has extensive collaboration experience and routinely assists MedStar and GU investigators in the development and management of quantitative interdisciplinary research. Specifically, she develops proposals, analyzes data, and assists with manuscript preparation and submission.She has a broad research portfolio that includes studies in mental health, diabetes, nutrition and cardiovascular disease.
Areas of Research: Anxiety, stress and depression, Nutrition, obesity and diabetes and their relationship to mental health, Stress and cardiovascular disease, Research design and statistical modeling