Gökhan Sayram MD

Macquarie Hospitalc
North Sydney Area Mental Health Service
Sydney, Ausralia

+61(0)2 9482 4314
+61 (0)4 1279-1958 (Mobile)

gokhan@sayram.net (eMail)

Jul 2005-Current: Psychiatry Registrar
North Sydney Area Mental Health Service
Acure Care and Crisis Team,
Adult Outpatients Clinic,
Residential Clozapine Clinic,
Early Psychosis Outpatients Clinic
Consultation Liaison
Community Psychogeriatric Clinic
Inpatient Rehabilitation
Short to Medium Term Recovery
Electroconvulsive Therapy

Jan 2003 – Jul 2005: Psychiatry Registrar
Department of Psychiatry
Gold Coast Hospital, Southport Qld
Acute Care and Crisis Team, General Adult in and outpatient, Consultation Liaison, Child and Youth, Old Age Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, Psychotherapy

Jan-Dec 2002: Psychiatry Registrar,
North West Regional Hospital, Burnie TAS
General Adult in and outpatient, Rural Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, ECT refresher course, TMS

Feb- 2001 -Jan 2002: Senior Medical Officer
Monash Medical Centre,
Monash University
Department of Psychiatry
Melbourne VIC
Emergency Psychiatric Services, Outpatients Clinic

1997-2000 Medical Officer,
Gippsland Psychiatric Services
Traralgon, Victoria
Adult in and outpatients, Psychogeriatric Services inpatients, Transcultural Psychiatry, PTSD Clinic

• Designed, planned and implemented PTSD Clinic for refugees of former Yugoslavia
• Introduced prefrontal ECT to the service
• Non-pharmaceutical reduction of Anxiety. Reduction of benzodiazepine use
• Sleep Hygiene education

IN TURKEY:

1988 Registrar, Bakirkoy Psychiaytry Hospital

Supervisor, Professor Yildirim Aktuna

Joined the team during the revolutionary reshaping of this old traditional hospital by Dr Aktuna who implemented the current best practice in medicine and psychotherapy. Dr Aktuna subsequently became the Minister for Health in Turkey

(migrated to Australia)

1987-1988 Assistant. Family Medicine,

Haseki Hospital
Istanbul, Turkey

Postgraduate experience in O+G, Medicine, Surgery and Paediatrics

1985-1987 Medical Superintendent, Community and Rural Medicine

Dagbasi Community Health Centre
Trabzon, Turkey

My first post as the first doctor in this remote rural community.
Started a full clinic, organized an allied health and administrative team.
Extensive involvement in implementing health services, team building, community education, health mobilization.
Our High level of success in immunizing children and improving child health was acknowledged by UNESCO
Implemented computer use in health records, statistics and planning of services. (This was in 1982 before the advent of the PC. I wrote and compiled the software myself.)

Registrar,
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Australia

M.D. Hacettepe University, 1985
Ankara, Turkey
Dip. No. 85-AA-005

Professional Translator
Accreditation, National Authority for
Accreditation of Translators and Interpreters 1990
Melbourne, Victoria

Workcare Rehabilitation Consultant, 1993
Melbourne, Victoria

Registrar, Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatry
Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit
Turkish Psychiatrists Association in Turkey (TPD)
Editor (English) Journal of Dependence ISSN 1302-5570
Columnist (on community psychiatry) Turkish Weekly News

2001 Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatry
1994 Dept of Community Medicine, Monash University, Bentleigh, Victoria
1989-1992 Victorian Medical Postgraduate Foundation, Melbourne, Victoria
1987-1989 College of Family Medicine, Haseki Hospital Istanbul, Turkey, incl Bakirkoy Psychiatry Hospital
1987 Certificate of Gynæcological Pathology, Zeynep Kâmil Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

• Dementia (Montefiore Nursing Home) 2008
• Face Blindness 2007
• New Treatment Options in ADHD 2007
• Enhancing Communication Between Family Members AAKM 2007
• Early Psychosis EPIS 2006
• Family Therapies GCH 2005
• Sleep Physiology, GCH 2004
• Tarasoff and its implications, GCH 2003
• Rise and fall of the Schizophrenogenic Mother—Philosophy of Science in Psychiatry
• Alcohol and Its Effects on Brain, Spencer Clinic 2002
• Herbal Remedies, Are They Safe or Effective? Spencer Clinic 2002
• Depression Treatment, NWRH 2002
• Aggressive Behaviour and Its Management, NWRH 2002
• Depression, Gippsland Psychiatric Services, 2000
• Newer Antipsychotics, Gippsland Psychiatric Services, 1999
• Deliberate Self Harm, Gippsland Psychiatric Services, 1999
• Sleep Disorders, Gippsland Psychiatric Services, 1998
• PTSD Treatment for Bosnians Resettled in Country Victoria—A Successful Initiative of Gippsland Psychiatric Services in Collaboration with Migrant Resource Centre; THEMS, Tasmania, October 1998

• fMRI correlates of the Jungean Word Association Tests; Principal Researcher with Professor L. Petchkovsky
• Authoring Chapter: Mind Altering Substances and Criminal Organisations in the book Dependence Issues Handbook by Kalyoncu et al.

• Emergence of Self in Conversation from a perspective of the Development of Memory Forms and Limbic System Structures
• Physiological Roots of the Psychological Trauma of Severance of Attachment
• Schumann Waves and EEG
• Urban Environment and Psychological Wellbeing
• Physio-endocrino-psychological Effects of Modern Life Style and Circadian Rhytm Changes
• Dream Analysis Revisited
• Outlining the Domain of Psychiatry-Future Directions