She is chair of Clinical Pharmacology in the University of Newcastle School of Medicine and Public Health,[1] Director of the NHMRC funded Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence (ACRE),[1] and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Governance roles include President-Elect of the RACP and President from May 2024; Council Member of the University of Newcastle and the NSW Council AICD 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.
[4] Her post-doctoral work investigated macrophage function in high fat diet at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
[2] In the same year she published a report of clinical trials in Australia of using increasingly legal medicines based on cannabis.
[5] Martin resigned as staff-elected Councillor from the University of Newcastle Council in June 2021 in protest at the appointment of Whitehaven Coal Chairman Mark Vaile as Chancellor.