Carmen Martinez, MD

Carmen Martinez, MD, is a native of the Dominican Republic, where she completed medical studies at the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo in 2004. She immigrated to the U.S. in 2007 to begin residency training in general psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, which she completed in 2011. Shortly after, she pursued fellowship training in addiction psychiatry at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, completing that training in 2012. She also has been certified as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist by the Psychoanalytic Institute of Philadelphia and has board certifications from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both general adult and addiction psychiatry.

She started practicing at the DeKalb County community as the lead psychiatrist for the Addictive Disease Services Division in 2012 and has developed a career focused on bringing high-quality behavioral health care to underserved communities. Since June 2020, she has served as medical director for Claratel Behavioral Health, where she provides medical guidance, support and initiatives that inform the delivery of mental health and addiction services in a wide variety of programs and settings across the continuum of care and lifespan. She is a strong proponent and advocate of using evidence-based medicine in the context of a recovery-focused, person-centered approach, with the goal of achieving positive, quantifiable health outcomes.