ReachMD

Dr. Gerard Martin is senior vice president for the Center for Heart, Lung and Kidney Disease, co-director of the Children's National Heart Institute, and the C. Richard Beyda Professor of Cardiology at Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) in Washington, DC.

Dr. Martin has been in practice at CNMC since 1986. He earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Syracuse University in New York. He received his doctor of medicine degree from SUNY-Upstate Medical Center. Dr. Martin completed both his internship in pediatrics and his residency at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. After his residency, Dr. Martin was a research fellow in pediatric cardiology at the Cardiovascular Research Institute in San Francisco. He has also served as chief of the division of cardiology, and the director of the Echocardiography Program and Cardiology Fellowship Training Program.

Dr. Martin is a professor of pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and a member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Heart Association's Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young. He served on the American Board of Pediatrics sub-board in pediatric cardiology and was a member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Cardiology Data and Safety Monitoring Board.

In addition, Dr. Martin is an associate editor for the journal Pediatric Cardiology and has more than 100 publications in the field of pediatric cardiology. Dr. Martin is a member of the board of trustees for the ACC; he also chairs the ACC's Council of Adult Congenital/Pediatric Cardiology. He is an invited speaker nationally and internationally and is an acknowledged expert in the area of pediatric echocardiography and fetal cardiology. Additionally, Dr. Martin has been a volunteer on medical missions to third world countries. His primary research interests include the cardiac effects of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and non-invasive measures of cardiac function, as well as screening techniques for critical congenital heart disease.