Background
Dr. Keith Martin is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is a general pediatrician and attending physician in the Johns Hopkins Harriet Lane Clinic and the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Children's Medical Practice. Dr. Martin is an expert on immigrant child trauma and resilience. He joined the faculty in 2021.
A graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Martin completed a residency in pediatrics at Children's Mercy Kansas City and a fellowship in general pediatrics research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He holds a M.S. in Biomedical Sciences from Tufts University School of Medicine and a M.S. in Clinical and Translational Research from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Dr. Martin is a rising star in ambulatory screening for and intervention to address immigrant child trauma in the pediatric primary care setting using community-based participatory mixed method approaches. He is the recipient of an Academic Pediatric Association Young Investigator Award to conduct a qualitative study of immigration-related trauma and resilience among Latinx children and parents. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he received a COVID-19 Critical Community Challenge Grant from the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Learning at the University of Cincinnati/Cincinnati Children’s to identify how critical knowledge gaps about COVID-19 prevention behaviors and quarantine practices influence the health and well-being of Latinx adults in Cincinnati.