Seth Shay Martin, M.D., M.H.S.

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  • Director of the Advanced Lipid Disorders Program and Digital Health Lab, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
  • Professor of Medicine
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Expertise

Abdominal Aneurysms, Arterial Occlusive Disease, Atherosclerosis, Atherosclerosis Imaging, Cardiac Disease, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Medicine, Cardiovascular Risk Stratification, Chest Pain, Clinical Cardiology, Clinical Lipidology, Coronary Artery Disease, Dyslipidemia, General Cardiology, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure (Hypertension), High Cholesterol, Inherited Heart Diseases, Ischemic Heart Disease, Preventive Cardiology, Risk Factor Modification, Stress Testing, Subclinical Atherosclerosis, Valvular Heart Disease ...read more

Research Interests

Cardiovascular Risk Assessment; Dyslipidemia; Mobile Health Technology; Primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease; Individuals with a family history of heart disease; Improved strategies for management of cardiovascular risk factors; Preventive Cardiology; Atherosclerosis Imaging; Lipids ...read more

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The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Appointment Phone: 410-502-0469
600 N. Wolfe Street
Carnegie 591
Baltimore, MD 21287
Fax: 410-367-2224
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Background

Dr. Seth Martin is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, specializing in preventive cardiology, lipids, and digital health.

Dr. Martin is a core faculty member at the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, where he directs the Advanced Lipid Disorders Program and co-directs the Digital Health Innovations Lab. In addition, Dr. Martin serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Mobile Technologies to Achieve Equity in Cardiovascular Health (mTECH), which is part of the American Heart Association (AHA) Strategically Focused Research Networks on Health Technology & Innovation. Reflecting his collaborative interdisciplinary approach, Dr. Martin is also a core faculty member in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, associate faculty member at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, and an affiliate faculty member at the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. He is a member of the AHA’s National Health Tech Advisory Group. He also serves as Chair of the AHA National Statistics Committee and President of the Maryland AHA Board.

With research grounded in preventive cardiology, Dr. Martin focuses at the intersections of digital/mobile health technology, lipidology, cardiovascular risk assessment, health equity, big data and precision medicine. Using a database of more than 1 million patients, Dr. Martin led the development of an improved LDL cholesterol algorithm that was externally validated in databases, cohort studies, and clinical trials, and has been clinically adopted at scale around the world in professional guidelines and practice. Dr. Martin is also a co-founder of the Corrie Health Digital Platform, which has been developed to re-engineer the patient and clinician experience to promote guideline-directed cardiovascular care. The Corrie platform was featured to more than 20 million viewers at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in 2022 as a leading health tech innovation, and is currently be scaled through clinical trials and commercialization efforts.

A dedicated clinician and clinical educator, Dr. Martin is a member of the Johns Hopkins bedside medicine faculty. He is an attending cardiologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital on the general cardiology service and cardiology consult service. At the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, he sees patients in the lipid and preventive cardiology clinics. He has a collaborative and patient-centered approach to the care he provides and draws strongly on the latest high-quality evidence.

Dr. Martin is invested in the careers of early-stage investigators to build a diverse biomedical research workforce to promote equity in health and healthcare. He has also mentored >70 trainees, including students, residents, fellows, and young faculty, in clinical research and innovation. Dr. Martin has been part of the Osler Medical Residency since 2015 when he joined the Janeway Firm Faculty. He then became a Firm Faculty Clinical Coach, mentoring numerous interns and residents. In 2020, he was awarded the DOM's Frederick L. Brancati Excellence in Mentoring Award. In 2023, he was appointed as the Firm Faculty Leader for the Barker Firm of the Osler Medical Residency.

Dr. Martin has published more than 300 articles in leading cardiology and medicine journals, more than 20 book chapters, and served as the editor for the book Precision Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Lipidology and European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, is on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, and he has been a guest editor for the journals Circulation and NPJ Digital Medicine.

Dr. Martin was selected as one of 125 individuals who personify Johns Hopkins Medicine’s mission to improve the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research and clinical care, in celebration of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s 125th anniversary.

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Titles

  • Director of the Advanced Lipid Disorders Program and Digital Health Lab, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
  • Professor of Medicine

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Centers & Institutes

Education

Degrees

  • MD; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2008)

Residencies

  • Internal Medicine; Duke University Hospital (2011)

Fellowships

  • Cardiology; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2015)

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease) (2014)
  • American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine) (2011)

Research & Publications

Clinical Trials



mActive: A Blinded, Randomized mHealth Activity Trial

Selected Publications

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Martin SS, Blaha MJ, Elshazly MB, Toth PP, Kwiterovich PO, Blumenthal RS, Jones SR. Comparison of a novel method vs the Friedewald equation for estimating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels from the standard lipid profile. JAMA. 2013 Nov 20;310(19):2061-8. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.280532. PubMed PMID: 24240933; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4226221

Sathiyakumar V, Park J, Golozar A, Lazo M, Quispe R, Guallar E, Blumenthal RS, Jones SR, Martin SS. Fasting Versus Nonfasting and Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Accuracy. Circulation. 2018 Jan 2;137(1):10-19. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.030677. Epub 2017 Oct 16. PMID: 29038168

Martin SS, Giugliano RP, Murphy SA, Wasserman SM, Stein EA, Ceska R, Lopez-Miranda J, Georgiev B, Lorenzatti AJ, Tikkanen MJ, Sever PS, Keech AC, Pedersen TR, Sabatine MS. Comparison of Low-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Assessment by Martin/Hopkins Estimation, Friedewald Estimation, and Preparative Ultracentrifugation: Insights From the FOURIER Trial. JAMA Cardiol. 2018 Jun 13. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2018.1533. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 29898218

Martin SS, Feldman DI, Blumenthal RS, Jones SR, Post WS, McKibben RA, Michos ED, Ndumele CE, Ratchford EV, Coresh J, Blaha MJ. mActive: A Randomized Clinical Trial of an Automated mHealth Intervention for Physical Activity Promotion. J Am Heart Assoc. 2015 Nov 9;4(11). pii: e002239. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.115.002239.

Marvel FA, Spaulding EM, Lee MA, Yang WE, Demo R, Ding J, Wang J, Xun H, Shah LM, Weng D, Carter J, Majmudar M, Elgin E, Sheidy J, McLin R, Flowers J, Vilarino V, Lumelsky DN, Bhardwaj V, Padula WV, Shan R, Huynh PP, Wongvibulsin S, Leung C, Allen JK, Martin SS. Digital Health Intervention in Acute Myocardial Infarction. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2021 Jul;14(7):e007741. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.121.007741. Epub 2021 Jul 15.

Activities & Honors

Honors

  • Robert M. Califf & Barton F. Haynes House Staff Research Award, Duke University Medical Center
  • Stanley L. Blumenthal, MD Cardiology Research Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Up and Coming Future Stars of Cardiology, American College of Cardiology
  • Howard S. Silverman Research Award for Originality & Creativity in Medical Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Steven N. Blair Award for Excellence in Physical Activity Research, AHA Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health
  • Anna Huffstutler Stiles Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and innovative thesis research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • PJ Schafer Cardiovascular Research Award, PJ Schafer Memorial Fund
  • Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Early Career Investigator Award
  • Stanford Medicine X Global Research Challenge Finalist
  • Young Investigator Award, National Lipid Association
  • Cardiology Today Next Gen Innovators Award
  • Selected as one of 125 individuals who personify Johns Hopkins Medicine’s mission to improve the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research and clinical care, in celebration of the 125th Johns Hopkins Medicine anniversary
  • Frederick L. Brancati Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine

Memberships

  • American Heart Association

    Fellow

  • American College of Cardiology

    Fellow

  • Johns Hopkins Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science
  • The Thistle Society, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
  • The FH Foundation
  • The American Society for Preventive Cardiology

    Fellow and Board Member

  • Lipoprotein(a) Foundation

    Board Member

  • National Lipid Association

Professional Activities

  • Member, State Advisory Council on Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 2017
  • Team Coach, American Heart Association Greater Baltimore Heart Walk, 2014
  • President, American Heart Association Baltimore & Greater Maryland Board of Directors
  • Director, American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network on Health Technology and Innovation
  • Member, American Heart Association National Health Technology Advisory Group
  • Chair, American Heart Association National Statistics Committee
  • Board Member, The American Society of Preventive Cardiology
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