Fernando Martinez, MD

Dr. Martinez is Director of the Arizona Respiratory Center and Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona in Tucson.  His major research interests include the natural history of childhood asthma, the genetic epidemiology of asthma and related conditions, and the early development of the immune system as a risk factor for the development of asthma.  Dr. Martinez is the Director of one of five centers participating in the Childhood Asthma Research and Education (CARE) Network, a national effort funded by NHLBI.  He is also the recipient of two other current NIH grants.  Dr. Martinez is an associate editor of Thorax and is a reviewer for various journals, including Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and European Respiratory Journal.  He has written more than 150 journal articles, book chapters, editorials, and abstracts, and he has been an invited lecturer at numerous conferences both nationally and internationally.  Dr. Martinez is a member of the Merck Childhood Asthma Network's National Advisory Board.