Paul Martin is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where he holds the Mandel Chair in Gastroenterology. He is a native of Dublin, Ireland, where he graduated with honors from medical school at University College, Dublin. He received a Doctorate in Medicine from the National University of Ireland. He did his initial training in internal medicine in Dublin completing a residency at the University of Alberta, Canada. After training in gastroenterology also in Canada he was a Medical Staff Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
His clinical activities include transplant and general hepatology. Dr Martin has had a major interest in the management of viral hepatitis in organ transplant. This extends not only to liver transplant patients with chronic viral hepatitis but also to other organ systems most notably renal. Dr Martin has been involved in a number of studies related to the impact of viral hepatitis in renal recipients as well the role of antiviral therapy in organ transplant recipients.
He has also published on transmission of viral hepatitis in patients with chronic kidney disease. He serves on the Board of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Dr Martin has authored or co-authored over 200 peer reviewed publications as well as review articles and chapters. In addition, he has edited a number of issues of the Clinics in Liver Disease. He is Editor Emeritus of Liver Transplanation.
The current lecture was presented at the INEDSYS Hepatology Club on April 30th, 2022.
24 июл 2024
