From DrDal’s recent Editorial at the “Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology”:
“Globalization, technology, trade and tourism have played significant roles in creating the trend towards open societies from closed or collectivist societies around the world. Cultural, ethnic, and religious pluralism have been parallel trends that have gained more momentum after the end of the cold war. In return, open societies and pluralism have contributed to easier identification and expression of emotional symptoms and seeking treatment, which has gradually increased the reported frequency of psychiatric conditions in many societies. For instance the World Health Organization (WHO) has listed depression as the most debilitating illness for the world population in terms of “years lived with disability” and the fourth according to the “disability adjusted life years” (sum of years of potential life lost due to premature mortality and the years of productive life lost due to disability) and has predicted that it will become the second by the year 2020 in all age groups”
Click here to read the full editorial.
Dr. Dalkilic (Dr. Dal) has been a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology since 2000 and has been practicing psychiatry in New Jersey and the Greater Philadelphia area. He specializes in the treatment of eating, anxiety, bipolar and depressive disorders, as well as psychopharmacology. He has been a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Dal graduated from Psychiatry Residency Training Program of Yale University in 1999 and is a graduate of Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul. He began his MPH training at Yale University School of Public Health and obtained his MPH degree from George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services, in 2002. He was selected and participated in the 2008 Future Leaders in Psychiatry Program organized by Emory University, while practicing psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine, as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (2005-2009).
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