President-Elect Nominee:

Dr Necip Cem Kinaci MD

Dear WAO members,
My relationship with autism began when my son Ata was diagnosed with autism in 2001. As a Nuclear Medicine Specialist, brain imaging was already a part of my job. From the moment I realized that the classical medical approach to autistic children was very outdated, I tried to improve myself in this field. For this purpose, I contacted all institutions where I could receive training, especially in the USA, between 2004-2009. In 2013, we published a book called “Autism Solution” together with Prof. Dr. Ahmet Aydin, Turkey’s most valuable nutrition and metabolism specialist in Istanbul University. This book is currently in its 14th edition and is a best seller.
The following years passed with organization in every field. Associations were established, these associations were created into a platform, then first into a federation and then into a confederation. The country’s autism action plan was prepared and was accepted by the government and became law in 2015.
Thanks to this plan, families can now retire at an earlier age, those who care for their children at home are considered part-time workers and receive a salary from the state. They have gained more social rights in almost every field, including home health care.
In 2015, my wife and I founded the Autism Medical Institute to undertake the training of all those working in this field so that they can provide better services to people with autism in the future. With the contribution of volunteer scientists, which has increased since the first year, today 70 scientists from 23 countries provide free contributions.
As you have observed in recent years, we have organized as many international meetings as possible together with the Autism Medical Institute (AutisMedi), of which I am the president, and other non-governmental organizations that work for the public benefit.
We had several goals for this. First of all, having an educational institution from the region as the host (so that this institution can become a leading institution in its country in the future), and another purpose of organizing these meetings with the support of WAO was to both raise awareness of WAO and receive a contribution of 500 euros from each meeting. In addition, the importance of being a WAO member was explained to each country we organized an event in, and many countries were invited to become members. Greece, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Turkey, Austria, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Iraqi Kurdistan and some other countries applied for WAO membership or decided to become members in the new year.
Almost all of our friends who attended these meetings are members of the AutisMedi scientific advisory board. In addition to these, regional speakers were added to each meeting. In this way, WAO became an institution recognized by the institutions of that country. It was equipped with more professional special education and medical issues.
If we want to be a real world organization worthy of our title, we should ensure that we have more members in a wider area and in more countries. I hope that one day we will be able to make every country a member. In this way, we will reach a structure funded by the UN. This should be perceived as a duty for all of us. This issue will be my most important and priority action.
We should be stronger both with our presence in the virtual world and with our institutional structure. Many countries are asking for help from WAO. However, continuing with a small number of members makes us weak. Our strongest card right now is our prestige. We must both protect this and be stronger in the areas I mentioned while increasing the number of members.
If I can get your support to be the president, what I can promise you is that, as I mentioned above, WAO will be strong and effective primarily through institutional recognition, awareness, more members and increasing revenues through meetings and other events. I will try to build a strong team to achieve this.
What I have done since I became a member of the WAO Council of Administration, especially in the last two years, will give you both an idea and a guarantee of what I can do in the coming years.
While doing all these, the institutional principles and respect that my predecessors have meticulously protected will also be my motto.
I hope you will not withhold your support so that I can also be a source of hope.
If you are wondering who Dr. Cem Kınacı is, please read my short biography below.
Best regards
Dr. Necip Cem Kınacı
Necip Cem KINACI, MD
President & Medical Director of Autism Medical Institute
Specialist in Nuclear Medicine, Theranostic Nuclear Oncology, Holistic Medicine
Supervisor Consultant on Neuro-HBOT
Diploma No: 17882 / 21350 İstanbul Uni. Turkey
UMSH Nr. Regjistrit 421 Tirane, Albania
Dr. Necip Cem Kinaci was born in Istanbul in 1958. He graduated from Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1984 and completed his specialization in GATA Nuclear Medicine Department in 1990. He served as the Head of Nuclear Medicine Department at Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine and Mersin University Faculty of Medicine.
After his son Ata was diagnosed with autism, 2004 was the year the Kinaci family began their fight against autism. Especially the intense support of his wife led Dr. Kinaci to specialize in this field. For this purpose, he contacted many institutions including Autism Research Institute and trained himself in biomedical treatments. He conducted numerous scientific studies (nuclear neuropsychiatry) and participated in numerous national and international conferences as an invited speaker or instructor.
His book, “Solutions to Autism” was published in 2013 and is currently on sale in its 14th edition. All proceeds from this book are donated to the Federation of Autism Associations.
He has been the president and medical director of the Autism Medical Institute, which he founded, since 2015. He helps the development of some countries as a guest professor at universities and advisor for ministries. He is an advisor to the Federation of Autism Associations in Turkey. He is a member of the World Autism Organization Council of Administration.