Dr. Seth Martin

Dr. Seth Martin is a Professor in the Division of Cardiology, 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 Lab. Dr. Martin has also served in major leadership roles for national organizations. He is serving on AHA’s National Health Tech Advisory Group, while previously serving as Immediate Past Chair of the AHA National Statistics Committee, and President of the Maryland AHA Board. Additionally, he is President of the National Lipid Association's southeastern region.

Dr. Martin has a track record of creating breakthrough innovations to advance clinical care. With research grounded in preventive cardiology, Dr. Martin focuses at the intersections of digital/mobile health technology, lipidology, 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. Dr. Martin 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. The Corrie platform was featured to more than 20 million viewers at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference as a leading health tech innovation, and is currently being scaled through clinical trials and commercialization efforts.

A dedicated clinician and clinical educator, Dr. Martin is a member of the Johns Hopkins bedside medicine faculty. He is an attending cardiologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital on the general cardiology service and cardiology consult service. At the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, he sees patients in the lipid and preventive cardiology clinics. He has a collaborative and patient-centered approach to the care he provides and draws strongly on the latest high-quality evidence.

Dr. Martin is invested in helping to launch the careers of early-stage investigators. He has also mentored >70 trainees, including students, residents, fellows, and young faculty, in clinical research and innovation. Dr. Martin has been part of the Osler Medical Residency since 2015 when he joined the Janeway Firm Faculty. He then became a Firm Faculty Clinical Coach, mentoring numerous interns and residents. In 2020, he was awarded the DOM's Frederick L. Brancati Excellence in Mentoring Award. In 2023, he was appointed as the Firm Faculty Leader for the Barker Firm of the Osler Medical Residency.

Dr. Martin has published more than 400 articles in leading cardiology and medicine journals, more than 20 book chapters, and served as the editor for the book Precision Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Lipidology and European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, is on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, and he has been a guest editor for the journals Circulation and NPJ Digital Medicine.

Dr. Martin was selected as one of 125 individuals who personify Johns Hopkins Medicine’s mission to improve the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research and clinical care, in celebration of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s 125th anniversary.