Dr. Zuhal Baltaş is a pioneer in expanding the scope of Occupational Health Psychology / Organizational Psychology in Turkey with her studies at Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical School. She was the first to bring stress and its health implications into academic attention. The outcomes of her intensive work on stress evaluation and coping skills came to suggest a beneficial value for the corporate world and aroused a widespread interest in local and international companies. She has also conducted research on the reliability, validity and standardization of a number of psychometric tests, namely; the Leighton Stress level 1-2, the Perceived Stress Scale and most recently HPI; MVPI; HDS. In 1974-1993 and 1997, she was Honorary Research Member in London University. In 2009 at UCL Center for Behavioral and Social Sciences in Medicine, she continued her studies in cross cultural research. In addition to a great number of articles and chapters in handbooks and scientific publications, she is the founding partner of Baltaş Group, which lay the ground for organizational psychology and contemporary human resources management in Turkey.