Dr. Randy Martin is a native of Miami, Florida. He attended Emory University Medical School, graduating summa cum laude from the School of Medicine in 1969. Dr. Martin then trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Stanford University Medical School, where he became one of the pioneers in the new field of two-dimensional echocardiography.

Dr. Randy Martin

Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Director of Noninvasive Cardiology

From 1977 to 1978, he served as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Noninvasive Lab at Stanford Medical Center. He continued his early clinical work on the application of two-dimensional echocardiography to cardiovascular diseases.

In 1978, Dr. Martin became Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Noninvasive Lab at the University of Virginia Medical School, in Charlottesville, Virginia. During the early 1980's, he became one of the innovators in the use of Doppler echocardiography in the United States and introduced this technique to his colleagues.

Dr. Martin served on the Faculty of Mayo Medical School from 1988 to 1989, where he was a Consultative Cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic and Associate Professor of Medicine. At Mayo he helped develop their outreach program for Cardiovascular Services and he continued his active role in the development and teaching of the newest methods of Echocardiography.

In 1989, Dr. Martin returned to Emory University and Emory Clinic to become a Professor of Medicine (Division of Cardiology) and Director of Noninvasive Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Martin served as Associate Dean for Clinical Development of Emory University School of Medicine from 1991-2003.

Dr. Martin has over 125 publications to his credit in peer-reviewed journals and is recognized as an expert in Echocardiography and Noninvasive Cardiology.

Dr. Martin is a Past-President of the American Society of Echocardiography - an organization of over 12,000 Cardiovascular Specialists (Cardiologists, Cardiac Anesthesiologists, Cardiac Surgeons, and Sonographers) dedicated to the use of Cardiovascular Ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of heart and vascular diseases. The American Society of Echocardiography is the second largest group of cardiovascular specialists in North America.

Dr. Martin continues to be very active in professional education. He lectures extensively throughout the world and for 21 years served as the host/moderator of the world's largest professional medical tele-education program, named "Echo In Context". This program ran annually for over 21 years, with over 50,000 physicians worldwide viewing this program each year. Recently, nearly 40,000 physicians worldwide tuned in to this program.

Dr. Martin has had a keen interest in consumer education. Since 1994, he has served as the Director of Emory's nationally recognized Mini-Medical School - a nearly yearlong course for consumers to emulate medical school experience. To date, over 7000 citizens of Atlanta have graduated.

Also, since 1994, Dr. Martin has been the sole Medical Correspondant for Cox Television's ABC affiliate, WSB-TV, Channel-2, where he appears two to three times per week on Action News. He has been awarded multiple broadcast awards, including three Emmy nominations, and he won the American Heart Association's Howard L. Lewis Lifetime Achievement Award for Health Science Reporting - the first Physician Television Journalist to ever do so. Then, in 2005, Dr. Martin served as Anchor for the American College of Cardiology's launch of ACC-TV, broadcasting live from the Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology with cutting edge reports on breaking news in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases, repeating as Anchor in 2006.

Dr. Martin has received numerous awards and recognitions, including becoming a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and being elected to the "Best Doctors in Atlanta", "Best Doctors in the United States", and "Who's Who".