Aslıhan Özlem Polat Işık, M.D., M.Sc., is Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine, Türkiye. She received her medical degree from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine and completed her psychiatry residency at Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. She holds an M.Sc. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her clinical and research interests include transgender health, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, trauma, and community mental health. She has extensive clinical, research, and teaching experience in psychiatry and multidisciplinary care for transgender individuals and has supervised numerous postgraduate research projects. She has authored and edited scientific works on gender dysphoria and multidisciplinary gender-affirming healthcare and has contributed extensively to research and education in psychiatry.