Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Niels D. Martin, MD, FACS, FCCM is the Vice Chair for Diversity & Inclusion in the Department of Surgery, Section Chief of Surgical Critical Care, Program Director for the Traumatology & Surgical Critical Care Fellowships, and an Associate Professor in Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Medical Director of the Trauma & Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. He is a board-certified Diplomat of the American Board of Surgery for both Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
He received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and his Medical Doctor degree from the Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson. He then completed a General Surgery Residency at Thomas Jefferson University and a fellowship in Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his current faculty appointment at PENN, he spent five years on faculty at Thomas Jefferson University.
He has clinical, educational, and research interests that involve caring for injured and critically ill surgical patients. More specifically, he focuses on innovating clinical trials and outcomes research in clinical efficacy, quality, and safety. In these endeavors, he has served as primary investigator in numerous clinical trials and performed extensive retrospective outcomes work. He has partnered with many collaborators including outside institutions, foundations, and industry. He has been formally included in over 15 funded grants, many as primary investigator. Additionally, he has presented research work to numerous national & international organizations and published in a variety of prominent medical journals. Currently, he has over 100 peer-reviewed publications.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM US CST