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Finbarr Martin

Finbarr Martin BSc, MB BS, MRCP, MSc, MD, FRCP, FRCSLT

Geriatrics
London, England, United Kingdom

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Professor Finbarr Martin is a consultant physician at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and a senior research fellow (visiting) at King’s College London.

After training in general medicine and completing research in the clinical and biochemical aspects of acquired muscle wasting in adults, Professor Martin trained in geriatric medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, London, and was appointed consultant physician in general and geriatric medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital. He has worked in a broad range of services for older people in acute hospitals and in community settings.

Professor Martin’s clinical work currently includes inpatient acute care and rehabilitation, clinics for falls, Parkinson’s disease and mobility problems, and clinical liaison with Intermediate Care and care homes in Lambeth. He has led the development and evaluation of novel clinical service models for older people, including several national “firsts”, such as domiciliary based intermediate care and inter-specialty hospital liaison teams. He has worked in an advisory capacity for the NHS locally and nationally and was until 2009 the clinical lead on the series of national audits on falls and bone health treatment of older people, funded by the Healthcare Commission (2005-2011) and managed from the Royal College of Physicians of London. He is currently the President-elect of the British Geriatric Society, the chair of the British Geriatrics Society section on falls and bone health and the co-chair of the national hip fracture database, an audit run in conjunction with the NHS Information Centre.

Professor Martin teaches medical students and co-supervises the health and healthcare module of the Institute of Gerontology’s MSc at King’s College London.
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