Dr Muzaffer Kaser is a consultant psychiatrist at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and an affiliated assistant professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. He has been the lead consultant for the establishment of the Staff Mental Health Service, a bespoke mental health clinic for NHS staff in Cambridgeshire that serves over 25,000 healthcare workers. The Staff Mental Health Service (SMHS) provides rapid access to assessments and treatments from a multidisciplinary mental health team. In collaboration with University of East Anglia, they are currently running a health economics evaluation study of the Staff Mental Health Service, investigating the cost-effectiveness of the model.
Dr Kaser trained in psychiatry in Istanbul and in Cambridge. He specialises in general adult psychiatry and liaison psychiatry. He did an MPhil in Translational Medicine and a PhD at the University of Cambridge where he also has worked as NIHR clinical lecturer.