Background
Dr. Seth Martin is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, specializing in preventive cardiology, lipids, and digital health.
After earning his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and training in internal medicine at Duke University, he joined Johns Hopkins Medicine. While completing a cardiology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Martin was designated the Marie-Josée & Henry R. Kravis Cardiovascular Fellow and served as a Pollin Cardiovascular Prevention Fellow. During his fellowship, Dr. Martin obtained a Master of Health Science degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was also awarded the Howard S. Silverman Award for originality and creativity in medical research, and the American College of Cardiology recognized him as an Up and Coming Future Star of Cardiology.
Dr. Martin joined the Johns Hopkins cardiology faculty in 2015. He 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’s 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.
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.
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.
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 230 articles in leading cardiology and medicine journals, as well as 15 book chapters. He contributed to an update on preventive cardiology published in Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. He is an associate editor of the American College of Cardiology’s Dyslipidemia Clinical Community and the Journal of Clinical Lipidology, 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.