APPLICATION FORM TO RUN AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE ELECTION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE IN THE EFS GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE EFS CONGRESS IN Albufeira, Portugal on May 10th 2018

NAME:Mehmet Sungur
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State the society member of EFS which is supporting your candidacy:1.Tukish Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies 2.CISED(Assocition of Sexual Health Institute)
Contact information (address, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, etc.):
Bagdat Cad, Ay Apt, No:372/18, Saskınbakkal, Istanbul, Turkey

+905334240523 mobile
+902163637134 office
List your university degrees (please provide proof in .jpg or .pdf format in addition to this application):
-Medical Faculty of Hacettepe University, Ankara.(MD- 1982)
-Medical Faculty of Ankara University, Ankara (Specialist- 1990)
-Medical Faculty of Ankara University, Ankara (Assistant Professor - 1992)
-Institute of Psychiatry, London. (Diploma - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy training and Couple and Sex Therapy training -1986-1988)
-Medical Faculty of Marmara University, Istanbul (Full Professor - 2001)
List your current positions:
Professor of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Dept of Marmara University Hospital, Istanbul
President of the Turkish Association for Cognitive Behaviour Psychotherapy (TACBP)
Former President of European Association of Behaviour and Cognitive Psychotherapy (EABCT)
President of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy (IACP)
Diplomate, Founding Fellow of Academy of Cognitive Therapy (ACT) ACT Certified Supervisor, Trainer and Consultant
World Association of Sexology MESHC Member, World Sexual Health Day Country Coordinator
Board Member of the European Federation of Sexology (EFS)
Please list your professional activities, with special reference to those dedicated to promote sexual health, sexual rights, sexology, sexuality education or research related to these areas:
-Mehmet Sungur has established the first Sexual Health Day activity in Turkey on 4th Sept 2012 on "Sexual Health to All: Living and Growing in Diversity". Since then he has been organizing World Sexual Health Day events to increase awareness about sexual health, sexual rights, sexual diversity and sexual dysfunctions.
-He has established the first "Sexual Dysfunction Assessment and Treatment Center" in Ankara in the year 1992. That was one of the two initial centers in Turkey that helped people who suffered from sexual problems
-He was the founder of the first association in Turkey regarding sexual health and education. The name of the association is CETAD (Sexual Education , Treatment and Research Association) which is still a member of EFS.
- He has organized and chaired 8 major international congresses. 4 of them are on Sexual Health and Sexual Dysfunctions. One of them is the 16th Congress of the European Society of Sexual Medicine (ESSM) joint by 12th Congress of European Federation of Sexology (EFS) in january 2014, in Istanbul where he was awarded a "Gold Medal" from EFS. The other three congresses were "1st International Symposium on Sexual Health and Sexual Dysfunction" organized in 2001 in Istanbul. The second one being "1st Mediterranean Congress on Human Sexualty and Reproduction" in 2012, in Cyprus. The third one is the one he organized in Capadoccia in 1993 where many professionals from different disciplines such as urology, gynecology and mental health professionals from Turkey and abroad attended and contributed. This was the first congress in Turkey that increased liaison and collaboration of different disciplines.
-He has been the president of one of the major national congresses held in Istanbul in 2012 by CETAD. The theme of the congress was on "Sexuality and sexual treatments".
- He has been attending and presenting in the congresses held by one of the major two associations, CISED (Associaiton of Sexual Health Institute) where he has received 3 awards for his contributions to the field of couple and sex therapy. CISED is still a member of the EFS.
-He has written many articles in national and international journals and has many chapters published in international books about sex and couple therapy published by Routledge, Wiley etc. Recently he has contribute to the SAGE encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology to define and describe terms such as sexual dysfunction, sexual treatment, sexual diagnosis and cultural factors in sexual issues..
-He has been the leader of the Sexual Problems track in the past World Congresses of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies(WCBCT). He is the leader of the sexual health and problems track for the upcoming WCBCT congress that will be held in Berlin in 2019.
-He has run workshops and given keynotes in annual international congresses of the European Associaition of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT).
-He is still training mental health professionals about sexual rights, policies and problems in Turkey and abroad. This year he will be giving workshops in Egypt, Latvia, and Russia about couple and sex therapy.
- He has given lectures in many EFS congresses and this year he will also give a lecture in the upcoming EFS congress in Albuferia.
-He has been part of the editorial and consulting boards of international journals such as Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy (journal of the British Association for Sexual and Marital Therapy) and have reviewed many papers submitted for publication for other major international journals related to sexual health and sexual problems.
Make a short statement on why you want to belong to the EFS executive committee:
I am already a board member of the EFS and I would be honored to stay as part of the EFS board for continuity of the projects we have planned for the future.I am also honored to be motivated for serving the society by the other existing board members.
If you are already a member of the executive committee, please outline your
contribution to the Federation during your term of office:
I am part of the education committee of EFS. We are working on establishing a curriculum at the educational, counseling and clinical level to help improve the training standards and to promote help given to people suffering from sexual problems. I have also been a member of the scientific committee for the last 3 -4 annual congresses of EFS and have presented lectures and symposiums. I have been one of the trainers for the school run by EFS and ESSM for those professionals who attend courses to conduct ethical and good practice of sex therapy. I have also written a chapter in the "EFS and ESSM Syllabus of Clinical Sexology".
Please state (in terms of time, attendance to meetings, working in specific projects) the commitment you are willing to make to work as a member of the executive committee if you are elected:
I will be delighted to do whatever I can and save time as much as required to do the best I can to promote the service given by EFS and to disseminate good and ethical practice. I will also be happy to disseminate the significance of work done by our association at an international level. I will be happy to improve liaison and cooperation with societies who share similar goals such as WAS.

Please remember that you need to accompany this application with:

  • A scanned copy of the document from your society stating that you are being nominated as a candidate for the executive committee of EFS, signed by the appropriate officer.
  • A scanned copy of your university degrees.
  • A brief curriculum vitae

and that the member society proposing your candidacy should have paid all dues.

Send your completed application to byMarch, 8th 2018.

Your completed form will be uploaded onto the EFS web site.