Dr. Renée Martin reviews medical content for Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. Dr. Martin is a professor emerita at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has reviewed grants for the National Institutes of Health, NATO, the Medical Research Council of Canada, Health and Welfare Canada, March of Dimes, British Columbia Health Care Research Foundation, and other organizations in Canada and the United States. She has provided many continuing education courses for nurses and physicians and has been an invited speaker at many national and international medical conferences. She was awarded the Canada Research Chair in Genetics in 2002 and was elected a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2006.

Education and Training

PhD: Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 1975

Certifications

Canadian College of Medical Geneticists

Academic Appointments

University of Calgary, Calgary, AB:

  • Professor of Medical Genetics, 1988–2011
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics, 1982–1988
  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, 1978–1982

Financial Disclosure

This reviewer reported no financial conflicts.

Last Revised: February 21, 2012

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