Sarper Taskiran, MD, is a Top Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with the Child Mind Institute in New York, NY

Sarper Taskiran, MD, is a well-versed child and adolescent psychiatrist who diagnoses and treats patients at the Child Mind Institute in New York, New York. Furthermore, he is an Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Chief of Mental Health and Counseling Services at Koc University School of Medicine in Istanbul, Turkey. He joined Koc Healthcare in 2013 and helped establish the child and adolescent psychiatry department and educational curriculum. Dr. Taskiran is also an attending psychiatrist at the VKV American Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, he specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families. Dr. Taskiran’s professional journey spans twenty years. His experience covers the diagnosis and treatment of the full range of psychiatric disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, disruptive behavior disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and mood disorders in children and adolescents. For more information about Dr. Sarper Taskiran, please visit https://childmind.org/bio/sarper-taskiran-md/.

Dr. Taskiran uses mindfulness and mentalization-based approaches for adolescents, evidence-based psychotherapy techniques, such as cognitive behavioral therapy for children, as well as psychopharmacological treatments. He is considered an expert in college mental health problems and is interested in adjustment problems, especially in cross-cultural settings. He served as Voluntary Expert Consultant at the School for Autistic Children of Bursa (2012). He also organized the Psychiatry of Chronic Diseases in Children workshop at Hacettepe University’s Faculty of Medicine (2001) and served as the Project Officer of Peer Educator on the Turkish Medical Students International Committee (1998-2001). Dr. Taskiran returned to Turkey in 2010 and completed his mandatory public service in Bursa. He started working at VKV American Hospital in Istanbul in 2013, and then joined Koç University School of Medicine. For more information about Dr. Sarper Taskiran, please visit https://www.kochealthcare.org/en/doctor/ali-sarper-taskiran.

Sarper Taskiran, MD, attended Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi/ Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara, Turkey, and received his medical degree in 2002. Then, he served as a postdoctoral associate at Yale University’s Clinical Neuroscience Unit (2002-2004). Furthermore, he conducted his general psychiatry residency at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT (2004-2008). In addition, he completed his fellowship training in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Child Study Center at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone (2008-2010). Dr. Taskiran received board certification in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. His current research interests are neuropsychological measures of Attention Disorders and Childhood Mood Disorders. Dr. Taskiran has also performed research on face-emotion recognition in children with severe mood dysregulation, as well as emotional and social predictors of functioning in people with attentional disorders. For more information about Dr. Sarper Taskiran, please visit https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/3397725-Sarper-Taskiran-Psychiatrist.