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Randy P. Martin M.D.

Director of Clinical Education & Physician Development, Piedmont Healthcare, Inc.

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Dr. Randy P. Martin, M.D has been Director of clinical education and physician development of Piedmont Healthcare, Inc., since September 14, 2009. At Piedmont Heart Institute, Dr. Martin helps coordinate growth of the PHI prevention center of excellence, assists in managing the growth and expansion of echocardiography services. For more than 10 years, he served as the sole medical correspondent for Cox Television's ABC affiliate, WSB-TV, Channel-2, appearing two to three ... times a week on the news. He is Medical Director, Cardiovascular Imaging, Piedmont Hospital and Chief Structural & Valvular Heart Disease, Piedmont Heart Institute Echocardiography Piedmont Heart Institute. He serves as Member of Editorial Advisory Board at Sharecare, Inc. Dr. Martin has held positions at the Stanford Medical Center of Stanford, Ca., where he was Assistant Professor of medicine and Co-Director of the noninvasive lab; the University of Virginia Medical School, in Charlottesville, Va., where he was one of the innovators in the use of Doppler echocardiography in the United States; and served on the faculty of the Mayo Medical School where he was a consultative cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and associate professor of medicine. Dr. Martin returned to Emory University and Emory Clinic to become a professor of medicine in their division of cardiology, and director of noninvasive cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. He served as Associate Dean for clinical development of Emory University School of Medicine from 1991 to 2003 and Associate Clinic Director from 1991 to 1996. Dr. Martin is known for his interest in consumer education. Since 1994, he has served as the Director of Emory's Mini-Medical School, a nearly year-long course for consumers to emulate medical school experience. 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 do so. Dr. Martin has over 160 publications to his credit in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks, and serves on the editorial boards of some of the most prestigious cardiovascular journals, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the American Journal of Cardiology, JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, and the Journal of Cardiology - the official journal of the Japanese College of Cardiology. He was President of the American Society of Echocardiography and is very active in professional education. He lectures extensively throughout the world and for 21 years has served as the host/moderator of the world's largest professional medical tele-education program, “Echo in Context.” Dr. Martin is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. He has been elected to the “Best Doctors in Atlanta,” “Best Doctors in the United States” and “Who's Who.” In 2007, Dr. Martin was honored by his international colleagues, who awarded him both the International Service and Scholarship Award, presented by the European Society of Echocardiography, in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Leadership Award of the Japanese Society of Echocardiography, awarded in Nagano, Japan. He trained in internal medicine and cardiology at Stanford University Medical School where he became one of the pioneers in the field of two-dimensional echocardiography. Dr. Martin earned his medical degree from Emory University Medical School, graduating summa cum laude from the school of medicine.

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