Dr. Martin developed her love for athletics at a very early age and has always aspired to work with young athletes. Her father is the head basketball coach and athletic director at a college in northeastern Ohio. This fostered her development as an athlete and enriched her experience taking care of college athletes. Dr. Martin attended college at Wittenberg University where she played varsity volleyball on her way to graduating as valedictorian and majoring in both Biology and Chemistry. She continued her education at Vanderbilt University Medical School, earning honors and graduating at the top of her class. She completed her five-year residency in orthopaedic surgery at Vanderbilt in 1999, after which she pursued dual fellowships in pediatric orthopaedics and sports medicine. While at Vanderbilt she cared for athletes in many sports; she served as one of the team physicians for the football team and traveled with the women’s soccer team.

After her residency, she and her husband, Greg, moved to Atlanta and are both affiliated with Emory University. Dr. Martin is a clinical instructor in the Department of Orthopaedics where she teaches and supervises the Emory orthopaedic residents. She also teaches people in other areas of healthcare, including physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and upcoming students from Morehouse University.

Dr. Martin brings a unique perspective to the treatment of pediatric athletes. She is one of only a few orthopaedic surgeons in the world who are dually fellowship trained in both pediatric orthopaedics and sports medicine. In addition, only 2% of all board certified orthopaedic surgeons are women, making Dr. Martin’s experience even rarer.

Dr. Martin believes that the size or age of an athlete does not determine the importance of their sport or their participation. She has developed the Sports Medicine and Arthroscopic Surgery program at the Egleston campus of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. To expand the range of therapies available to pediatric athletes, she is currently developing a “Pre-hab” program to identify areas of weakness for each individual athlete related to their specific sport. These areas can then be targeted by advance training and physical therapy to decrease the risk of injury during sports participation. Dr. Martin is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and has been asked to serve on the Sports Medicine Steering Committee for American Academy of Pediatrics. She has authored articles on a variety of topics, including original research on the physiology of cryotherapy or “ice therapy.” Based on her expertise in an emerging and important field of medicine, she has been invited to lecture on pediatric orthopaedics and sports medicine around the nation.

Dr. Martin is actively involved with the Egleston campus of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta where she currently serves on the Utilization Review Committed and the digital radiography (“PACS”) committee. She assumed the role of Vice-Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery at Egleston on January 1, 2003.