Dr. Martin is currently the Trauma Medical Director and Chief of Surgical Critical Care at Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State. He is also the Director of Surgical Research and the former Associate Program Director for the Madigan Army Medical Center General Surgery residency program. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD. He is the current Chair of the Army State, Region 13, for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. He has been deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and twice in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, service for which he received The Bronze Star as well as many other military distinctions.
Dr. Martin completed his undergraduate degree in 1990; a master’s degree in Medical Science in 1995, and his medical degree in 1998 all from Boston University. He completed residency training in General Surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center in 2003, and a fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at Los Angeles County Hospital and USC Medical Center in 2005.
Dr. Martin has had a prolific literary and research career in the 11 years since completing his formal training which includes contributions to 100s of peer-reviewed publications, authorship of 24 book chapters, and being co-author and editor of two books (“First to Cut: Trauma Lessons Learned in the Combat Zone”; and more recently “Front Line Surgery: A Practical Approach”).
Lastly, Dr. Martin is a co-host of the podcast Traumacast, a show that discusses topics related to all things trauma surgery.
Selected Show Notes
The differences between trauma surgery, surgical critical care, and acute care surgery (aka emergency general surgery).
Getting involved in research (early) if only to demystify the process of publishing and presenting papers.
3 big trauma associations
- The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- The Western Trauma Association
- The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Books
- House of God
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Top Knife by Kenneth Mattox
- “If you’re going to do a surgical residency, get Top Knife and read it cover to cover” – Dr. Martin.
- Front Line Surgery edited by Dr. Martin.
- Editing Front Line Surgery “has probably been the most rewarding thing I’ve done in my career” -Dr. Martin.
- Chapter 7 is written by Dr. Steele of Ep 004.
- Second Edition coming out sometime in 2017!
Contact Dr. Martin through the Traumacast website.
Twitter: @docmartin22
