Koray Basar MD

Koray Basar is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Hacettepe University, Ankara, where he completed his studies in medicine and psychiatry. He is currently the Secretary General of the Psychiatric Association of Turkey and executive committee member of the Turkish Association of Nervous and Mental Health. His clinic and research interests include diversity in sex development, gender identity and sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS, the mental health effects of stigma and discrimination on individuals and families, in addition to impulsivity and anhedonia in depression, and electroconvulsive treatments. He works as a sexual therapist, and he is one of the trainers in sexual therapy at the Sexual Education, Treatment, and Research Association (CETAD) in Turkey. He serves as associate editor for the Turkish Journal of Psychiatry. He is an actively contributing member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.