Paulo Martins, MD PhD
Paulo Martins MD, PhD, FAST, FACS is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at University of Massachusetts. He graduated from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil in 1998. He finished his PhD in transplant immunology at the University of Berlin-Germany in 2005 with “Summa cum Laude” and a post-doc research fellowship at the Brigham and Women Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University, in Boston-USA in 2008. From 2008-2010 he did a clinical hepatobiliary and Transplant Fellowship at the New York Medical School, followed by other clinical transplant fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, from 2010-2012. Since 2013, after one year as instructor at the MGH hospital in Boston, Dr. Martins has been working as a transplant Surgeon at the University of Massachusetts and principal investigator at a transplant laboratory in the same institution. During his career he has obtained several research awards and grants and in 2015, he was indicted fellow of the American Society of Transplantation and 2017 fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has worked on experimental surgery since medical school, and has focused his research on ischemia reperfusion injury and donor/graft modulation using small and large animal transplant models.
Dr. Martins has trained microsurgeons and supervised several graduate students, residents, PhD students in the hospital and in his laboratory. He is an editorial board member of 3 scientific journals, ad-hoc reviewer of 10 medical journals, committee member of several organizations (UNOS, AST, ASTS) and member of 6 scientific/professional associations. Dr. Martins has published 59 peer-reviewed articles, 8 book chapters, and several abstracts in scientific meeting and medical journals.