Name Dan Karasic | Education Occidental College | |
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. In 2003, he commented on the difference between anti-depressive drugs.