Professional Bio
Sara Martin, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is the Medical Director of Outpatient Palliative Care at VUMC and has led the effort to create and expand this clinical component of the palliative care service. She also serves as the Medical Director of the Adult Post-Acute COVID Clinic at VUMC and led the effort to create this unique service line.
She received her bachelor's and medical degrees from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt. She subsequently completed a hospice and palliative medicine fellowship and joined the VUMC Department of Medicine faculty.
Dr. Martin's academic interests include the study of early palliative care in multiple populations. She serves as the site PI of a large national PCORI grant studying early palliative care in patients with stage IV NSCLC. She has also participated in research studying early palliative care in hepatology patients and patients undergoing high risk oncologic surgeries. She has presented nationally on the topic of early palliative care and its role in patients with a serious illnesses ranging from cancer to ALS.
Dr. Martin is also interested in the diagnosis and management of post-acute sequala of COVID (PASC) or long COVID. She serves as a clinical expert for VUMC as part of the large, NIH-funded RECOVER grant and is partnering with colleagues on studies focused on treatment of PASC. In addition, she enjoys teaching trainees palliative care skills and medical ethics and has won awards for excellence in teaching. She has produced and conceptualized documentaries related to palliative care that have been shown at film festivals throughout the US.
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Education
MD - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006
Internship - Vanderbilt University, 2007
Residency - Internal Medicine - Vanderbilt University, 2009
Fellowship - Hospice & Palliative Med - Vanderbilt University, 2010
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307