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{{Short description|Australian clinical pharmacologist, physician and academic}}
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'''Jennifer Helen Martin''' is an Australian clinical pharmacologist, physician and academic. She is chair of [[Clinical pharmacology|Clinical Pharmacology]] in the [[University of Newcastle School of Medicine and Public Health]],<ref name=":0" /> Director of the [[National Health and Medical Research Council|NHMRC]] funded Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence (ACRE),<ref name=":0" /> and a Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2020-10-14|title=Academy elects 28 new Fellows|url=https://aahms.org/publications/2020-new-fellows/|access-date=2021-10-12|website=AAHMS - Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences|language=en-AU}}</ref>  Martin is also Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal [[Pharmacology Research & Perspectives]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pharmacology Research & Perspectives |url=https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20521707}}</ref> Martin translates research into practice and policy. Her research involves the investigation of therapeutic drugs, from drug design and development, to [[clinical trial]]s and studies to investigate how new drugs perform in the general population.
Governance roles include President-Elect of the [[Royal Australasian College of Physicians|RACP]] and President from May 2024; Council Member of the [[University of Newcastle (Australia)|University of Newcastle]] and the NSW Council [https://www.aicd.com.au/ AICD]
== Early life ==
Martin grew up in [[Wellington]], New Zealand where she followed an early interest in medicine from her love of sport, hoping to one day be the doctor who travelled with the New Zealand Olympic team.<ref name=":0" />
After studying medicine at the [[University of Otago]], moved to work and study in the United Kingdom in 1993, later returning to New Zealand to train as a specialist in pharmacology and internal medicine. Martin moved to Melbourne to undertake a PhD in Medicine in 2000.
== Career ==
Martin is a Rhodes Scholar who studied  [[Philosophy, politics and economics|PPE]] and [[health economics]] at the [[University of Oxford]]. She completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the [[University of Otago]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2015-01-16|title=Staff Profile|url=https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/jen-martin|access-date=2021-10-12|website=www.newcastle.edu.au|language=en}}</ref> and a Doctor of Philosophy at [[Monash University]] in 2005, examining innate immunity and heart failure [[pathophysiology]] in people with [[type 2 diabetes]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://monash.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=catau21129971940001751&vid=MONUI&search_scope=au_everything&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&context=L|title=The pathophysiology of heart failure in type 2 diabetes|access-date=2021-10-12|website=monash.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com}}</ref> Her post-doctoral work investigated [[macrophage]] function in high fat diet at the [[Walter and Eliza Hall Institute]].
Following her post-doctoral studies, Martin became the Head of Southside Clinical School at the [[University of Queensland]] where she was involved in revising the medical curricula to broaden medical student experiences in healthcare. Martin took on the leadership position of Chair of Clinical Pharmacology at the [[University of Newcastle (Australia)|University of Newcastle]] in 2013.<ref name=":0" />
Martin was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2020.<ref name=":1" /> In the same year she published a report of clinical trials in Australia of using increasingly legal medicines based on [[cannabis]]. The report gave advice on ethics and keeping patients safe.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Martin|first1=Jennifer H.|last2=Hill|first2=Courtney|last3=Walsh|first3=Anna|last4=Efron|first4=Daryl|last5=Taylor|first5=Kaitlyn|last6=Kennedy|first6=Michael|last7=Galettis|first7=Rachel|last8=Lightfoot|first8=Paul|last9=Hanson|first9=Julie|last10=Irving|first10=Helen|last11=Agar|first11=Meera|date=2020-11-17|title=Clinical trials with cannabis medicines—guidance for ethics committees, governance officers and researchers to streamline ethics applications and ensuring patient safety: considerations from the Australian experience|journal=Trials|volume=21|issue=1|pages=932|doi=10.1186/s13063-020-04862-6|issn=1745-6215|pmc=7673085|pmid=33203469 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
Martin resigned as staff-elected Councillor from the [https://www.newcastle.edu.au/current-staff/our-organisation/governance/council/council-members/meet-prof-jenny-martin University of Newcastle Council] in [https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/vaile-lashes-out-at-critics-after-he-withdraws-from-university-job-20210622-p5832o June 2021] in protest at the appointment of Whitehaven Coal Chairman [[Mark Vaile]] as Chancellor. Vaile did not take up the [https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/vaile-lashes-out-at-critics-after-he-withdraws-from-university-job-20210622-p5832o Chancellor role] and Martin was re-elected to the University Council in [https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/vaile-s-nemesis-reappointed-to-newcastle-university-20211019-p59174 October 2021] <ref>{{Cite web |last=Hare |first=Julie |date=19 October 2021 |title=Vaile's nemesis reappointed to Newcastle University |url=https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/vaile-s-nemesis-reappointed-to-newcastle-university-20211019-p59174 |website=The Australian Financial Review}}</ref>
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