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Psychiatrist. Author. Educator. 

Daniel B. Martínez grew up in Chicago, the son of Mexican immigrants who crossed into this country carrying everything they had — and left behind everything they knew. That early experience of living between two worlds — two languages, two cultures, two ways of understanding what it means to belong — never left him. It shaped the doctor he became, the researcher he is, and the author he continues to be.

Today, Dr. Martínez is one of the most recognized Latino psychiatrists in the United States. He is board-certified in both General Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association — an honor reserved for members who demonstrate exceptional contributions to the field.

The clinician

Dr. Martínez earned his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology — with honors — from DePaul University in Chicago, and his medical degree from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 1995, where he received the Loyola Tuition Scholarship, the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund Award, and the Class of '95 Award for Excellence in Basic Sciences. He completed his residency in General Psychiatry at Loyola University Medical Center and his fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University at Children's Memorial Hospital.

In 2000, he founded Comprehensive Clinical Services, P.C. (CCS) — a bilingual, multi-specialty mental health group practice now serving patients across Lombard and Oak Park, Illinois, with over twenty clinicians under its roof. For more than two decades, CCS has been one of the primary destinations for Spanish-speaking families in the Chicago area seeking psychiatric care.

Dr. Martínez also serves as Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, where he has trained psychiatry residents and advanced practice nurses for over twenty years. He has served on the medical staffs of Rush Oak Park Hospital, Loyola University Medical Center, AMITA – Alexian Brothers Medical Center, and others, and has provided psychiatric services at the Will County Jail — because he believes that healing belongs everywhere, not just in clinical offices.

His clinical work has been recognized repeatedly: the Dr. Jorge Prieto Medical Achievement Award (2005), the Welford Award in Community Mental Health (2008), and a place on the Wall of Fame at East Leyden High School (2012) — the school that first believed in him.

The researcher

Early in his training, Dr. Martínez was awarded fellowships from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Corporation to study alcohol-induced neuronal degeneration — research that was published in the Journal of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. He later co-authored the American Psychiatric Association's official position statement on detained immigrants with mental illness, and chaired an APA Annual Meeting symposium on immigration, mental health, and deportation.

But his most defining intellectual contribution is the framework he calls The New Medical Model.

George Engel's biopsychosocial model — introduced in 1977 — changed psychiatry forever by expanding treatment beyond biology to include psychology and social context. Dr. Martínez argues that nearly five decades later, the field must take one more step. His five-domain model adds culture and spirituality to the framework — not as soft additions, but as clinically measurable, evidenced-based determinants of mental health outcomes. It is a proposal born from thirty years of sitting with patients whose suffering could not be fully explained by any of the three existing domains alone.

The communicator

Dr. Martínez has always believed that good psychiatry must leave the office. He hosted Clínica Martínez, a weekly radio show on WIND 1200 AM in Chicago, and wrote a regular health column — El Médico en su Casa — for Nuevo Siglo newspaper. He has appeared on Telemundo and Univision, been quoted in the Chicago Tribune, and spoken before the Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Latino Legislative Caucus, and the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting.

Today he hosts A Dan Good Podcast on YouTube and Café Con El Psiquiatra on Spotify — reaching Spanish-speaking audiences across the United States and Latin America with frank, accessible conversations about mental health.

He is also the author of Going Back to Mexico, a children's book for Latino families navigating identity and belonging between two worlds. His forthcoming book, Mental Wellness for Young Women in America, brings his clinical voice to one of the most urgent conversations of our time.

The man

Dr. Martínez is a Catholic, a husband, a father, and a Chicagoan who has never forgotten where he came from. As a medical student, he lived and worked with migrant farmworkers in Florida and with indigenous communities in Guatemala. As a physician, he has served as a founding board member of the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders — Chicago Chapter, and has been part of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church for decades.

He was the founding board member of the Illinois Hispanic Physicians Association, served on the APA's Council on Minority Mental Health and Health Disparities, and participated in the founding National Advisory Committee of the National Hispanic Medical Association.

When he sits with a patient — whether a child struggling to focus in school, a young woman drowning in anxiety, or an immigrant carrying grief that has no name in English — he brings all of it: the science, the culture, the faith, and the memory of what it means to be caught between worlds.

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