Gerard R. Martin MD, FAAP, FACC

Gerard Martin, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., is a cardiologist and the Medical Director of Global Services. He has been in practice at Children’s National Health System since 1986. Dr. Martin was promoted to Professor of Pediatrics with Tenure at George Washington University School of Medicine in 1995 and served as the Chief of Cardiology from 1997 to 2009 and Senior Vice President for the Center for Heart, Lung and Kidney Disease from 1999 to 2015. He founded the Children’s National Heart Institute in 2004, and was named the C. Richard Beyda Professor of Cardiology in 2007.

Dr. Martin was educated at Syracuse University and the State University of New York, Upstate School of Medicine. After a residency at Brown University and the Rhode Island Hospital, he received his training in pediatric cardiology at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. He has published over 140 peer reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and invited publications and has presented abstracts at over 125 meetings. Dr. Martin is an invited lecturer who has traveled to over 200 meetings, hospitals and universities within the U.S., as well as around the world. Additionally, Dr. Martin is an advocate for congenital heart disease efforts nationally and internationally. He played integral roles in the development of CCHD Screening and the Sub-Board of Adult Congenital Heart Disease in the U.S. Dr. Martin also has served as a volunteer on medical missions to developing countries, and as a consultant within the U.S., South America, Asia, and the Middle East.