Dr. Seth Martin is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins, specializing in preventive cardiology, lipids, and digital health. Dr. Martin is a core faculty member at the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, where he directs the Advanced Lipid Disorders Program and the Digital Health Innovations Lab. He is a member of the AHA’s National Health Tech Advisory Group, Immediate Past Chair of the AHA National Statistics Committee, and is President of the Maryland AHA Board.
With research grounded in preventive cardiology, Dr. Martin focuses at the intersections of digital/mobile health technology, lipidology, cardiovascular risk assessment, health equity, big data and precision medicine. Using a database of more than 1 million patients, Dr. Martin led the development of an improved LDL cholesterol algorithm that was externally validated in databases, cohort studies, and clinical trials, and has been clinically adopted at scale around the world in professional guidelines and practice. He is also a co-founder of the Corrie Health Digital Platform, which has been developed to re-engineer the patient and clinician experience to promote guideline-directed cardiovascular care.