Kimmo Suokas

Last updated: 12.06.2025

Education

2024 PhD in Social Psychiatry, Tampere University
2018 Residential 3-week Summer Course, European Educational Programme in Epidemiology
2018 Specialist Degree in Psychiatry, Tampere University
2011 MD, Tampere University

Current work

2023 -> Researcher, Psychosocial Factors and Health - study group
Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki.
2023 -> Consultant Psychiatrist
Psykiatrikonsultaatiot Hilla Oy
2019 -> Project Worker at the Finnish Psychiatric Association
Member at the Finnish Quality of Psychosis Care Register -team at the National quality registers in healthcare and socialservices -project at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Past work

2022–2025 Psychiatrist
Psykiatriakonsultaatiot Hilla Oy
Consultant at North Karelia wellbeing services county neuropsychiatric clinic.
2023–2024 Researcher
University of Helsinki
Psychosocial Factors and Health - study group
2023–2024 Researcher
Tampere University
Out of Despair project
2023 Lecturer
Tampere University
Social psychiatry
2022 Lecturer
Tampere University
Social psychiatry
2020–2022 Psychiatrist
Seure Oy
Consultant at Helsinki City Acute outpatient clinic
2018–2019 Psychiatrist
Psykiatriakonsultaatiot Hilla Oy
Consultant at psychiatry units in the City of Helsinki, City of Järvenpää, and Vaasa Central Hospital, Finland
2016–2019 Coordinator
Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland at University of Helsinki, Finland
The Finnish SUPER Study on Genetic Mechanisms of Psychotic Disorders: The main focus was to coordinate recruitment of 2000 study participants and sample collections at the region of Tampere University Hospital (Tays), together with five study nurses
2018 PhD Student
Tampere University and Tampere University Hospital
altogether four months
2011–2018 Specialising Physician at Helsinki University Hospital, Finland, Adolescent Psychiatry Unit; The Hospital District of South Ostrobothnia (EPSHP), Finland, General Hospital Psychiatry Unit; Tampere University Hospital, Finland, Neuropsychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry Unit; EPSHP, Finland, Psychiatry Unit; City of Järvenpää Health Center, Finland; Jyväskylä Central Hospital, Finland, Neurology Unit