Dan Karasic

Dan Halaban Karasic (born 1960) is an American psychiatrist specializing in transgender, gender dysphoric, and HIV-positive patients. He served on the San Francisco Human Rights Commission from 1998 to 2002, and he served as President of the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists from 2005 to 2007. In 2006 he was named Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Karasic currently teaches at University of California San Francisco.

Career

Karasic graduated summa cum laude with a degree in biology from Occidental College in 1982, then earned his M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine. He did his internship and residency at University of California, Los Angeles, followed by postdoctoral work in sociology at UCLA.

Karasic is co-editor with Jack Drescher of Sexual and Gender Diagnoses of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM): A Reevaluation. The book presents arguments for or against revisions of various gender and sexual diagnoses, including gender identity disorder, paraphilia, dyspareunia and vaginismus. He has also studied and commented on LGBT-specific needs in psychiatric care.^[1]

Selected publications

• Karasic DH, Hammer GP, Sorensen JL, Ragland K, Moss AR, Bangsberg DR, Dilley JW. Directly observed therapy to treat depression in the HIV-positive urban poor. Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Diego, May 23, 2007.

• Karasic DH and Drescher J. eds. Sexual and Gender Diagnoses of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM): A Reevaluation. 2005. Haworth Press, Binghamton, NY. ISBN 9780789032140

• Puzantian T, Lee J, Lee RJ, Wong J, Liu L, Karasic DH. Psychiatric effects associated with efavirenz: A retrospective study. 40th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Chicago, October 24 - 27, 2002.

• Perry S, Karasic D. Depression, adherence to HAART, and survival. Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling. 2002 17(9) 5-6.

• Karasic DH. Progress in health care for transgendered people. Editorial. Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 4(4) 2000 157-8.

• Targ EF, Karasic DH, Bystritsky A, Diefenbach PN, Anderson DA, Fawzy FI. Structured group therapy and fluoxetine to treat depression in HIV-positive persons. Psychosomatics. 1994; 35:132-7.

References

1. ^ Caldwell, John (July 8, 2003). Differences between drugs. The Advocate p. 45

External links

• Dan Karasic, MD via UCSF

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