{{Short description|Australian clinical pharmacologist, physician and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Jennifer Martin | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|FAHMS|FRACP}} | image = | alt = | caption = | office = | term_start = | term_end = | birth_name = Jennifer Helen Martin | birth_date = | birth_place = Wellington, New Zealand | death_date = {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Pharmacologist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Jennifer Helen Martin''' is an Australian clinical pharmacologist, physician and academic. She is chair of Clinical Pharmacology in the University of Newcastle School of Medicine and Public Health,<ref name=":0" /> Director of the NHMRC funded Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence (ACRE),<ref name=":0" /> and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2020-10-14|title=Academy elects 28 new Fellows|url=https://aahms.org/publications/2020-new-fellows/|access-date=2021-10-12|website=AAHMS - Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences|language=en-AU}}</ref> Martin is also Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Pharmacology Research & Perspectives.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pharmacology Research & Perspectives |doi=10.1002/(ISSN)2052-1707 |url=https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20521707}}</ref> Martin translates research into practice and policy. Her research involves the investigation of therapeutic drugs, from drug design and development, to clinical trials and studies to investigate how new drugs perform in the general population.
Governance roles include President-Elect of the RACP and President from May 2024; Council Member of the University of Newcastle and the NSW Council [https://www.aicd.com.au/ AICD]
== Early life == 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.<ref name=":0" />
After studying medicine at the University of Otago, moved to work and study in the United Kingdom in 1993, later returning to New Zealand to train as a specialist in pharmacology and internal medicine. Martin moved to Melbourne to undertake a PhD in medicine in 2000.
== Career == Martin is a Rhodes Scholar who studied PPE and health economics at the University of Oxford. She completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Otago<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2015-01-16|title=Staff Profile|url=https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/jen-martin|access-date=2021-10-12|website=www.newcastle.edu.au|language=en}}</ref> and a Doctor of Philosophy at Monash University in 2005, examining innate immunity and heart failure pathophysiology in people with type 2 diabetes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://monash.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=catau21129971940001751&vid=MONUI&search_scope=au_everything&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&context=L|title=The pathophysiology of heart failure in type 2 diabetes|access-date=2021-10-12|website=monash.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com}}</ref> Her post-doctoral work investigated macrophage function in high fat diet at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
Following her post-doctoral studies, Martin became the Head of Southside Clinical School at the University of Queensland where she was involved in revising the medical curricula to broaden medical student experiences in healthcare. Martin took on the leadership position of Chair of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Newcastle in 2013.<ref name=":0" />
Martin was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2020.<ref name=":1" /> In the same year she published a report of clinical trials in Australia of using increasingly legal medicines based on cannabis. The report gave advice on ethics and keeping patients safe.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Martin|first1=Jennifer H.|last2=Hill|first2=Courtney|last3=Walsh|first3=Anna|last4=Efron|first4=Daryl|last5=Taylor|first5=Kaitlyn|last6=Kennedy|first6=Michael|last7=Galettis|first7=Rachel|last8=Lightfoot|first8=Paul|last9=Hanson|first9=Julie|last10=Irving|first10=Helen|last11=Agar|first11=Meera|date=2020-11-17|title=Clinical trials with cannabis medicines—guidance for ethics committees, governance officers and researchers to streamline ethics applications and ensuring patient safety: considerations from the Australian experience|journal=Trials|volume=21|issue=1|pages=932|doi=10.1186/s13063-020-04862-6|issn=1745-6215|pmc=7673085|pmid=33203469 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
Martin resigned as staff-elected Councillor from the [https://www.newcastle.edu.au/current-staff/our-organisation/governance/council/council-members/meet-prof-jenny-martin University of Newcastle Council] in [https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/vaile-lashes-out-at-critics-after-he-withdraws-from-university-job-20210622-p5832o June 2021] in protest at the appointment of Whitehaven Coal Chairman Mark Vaile as Chancellor. Vaile did not take up the [https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/vaile-lashes-out-at-critics-after-he-withdraws-from-university-job-20210622-p5832o Chancellor role] and Martin was re-elected to the University Council in [https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/vaile-s-nemesis-reappointed-to-newcastle-university-20211019-p59174 October 2021] <ref>{{Cite web |last=Hare |first=Julie |date=19 October 2021 |title=Vaile's nemesis reappointed to Newcastle University |url=https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/vaile-s-nemesis-reappointed-to-newcastle-university-20211019-p59174 |website=The Australian Financial Review}}</ref>
On 22 April 2026, members of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) voted to remove Martin as president (2,179 in favor; 1,890 against). The college board subsequently launched an investigation into the validity of the vote, citing procedural irregularities and security disturbances that required police attendance, and stated she remains chair pending legal advice.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Paul |last2=Thannoo |first2=Jamie |date=22 April 2026 |title=Police called to RACP as its college president is booted out of office |url=https://www.ausdoc.com.au/news/police-called-in-to-racp-headquarters-as-its-college-president-is-booted-out-of-office/ |website=AusDoc |access-date=21 April 2026}}</ref>
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