Marlene Martin MD

Marlene Martin, MD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF and a hospitalist at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). Marlene was born and raised in Los Angeles and is a first-generation college graduate. Drawn to medicine to address health inequities and social injustices, her interests lie in systems improvement and innovation with a focus on addiction, community partnerships, Latinx health, and care transitions. Her bilingual and bicultural Mexican immigrant background drew her to work in the safety net. Marlene attended college and medical school at Stanford was an NIH Fogarty Scholar in Peru, and completed her internal medicine residency at UCSF.

She worked at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center for two years where she led inpatient addiction work before joining the SFGH hospitalist division. At SFGH she is the physician lead for equitable care and former member of the Health Equity Council and co-chair of the Care Transitions Task Force. Within the School of Medicine, she is a coach for students in the UCSF San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (PRIME) and is dedicated to diversifying the healthcare workforce.

Through the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence (LCOE), Marlene led the implementation of a promotor/based Latinx COVID-19 Enhanced Case Investigation and Contact Tracing effort between 2020-2021 and provided support for a Community Health Worker Academy sponsored by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Marlene is the Director of Addiction Initiatives for the UCSF LCOE where she aims to improve the health of Latinx individuals in San Francisco affected by unhealthy substance use.

Marlene is board certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine and founded and directs the award-winning Addiction Care Team (ACT) since 2019. ACT is an interprofessional consult service that provides compassionate care focused on harm reduction, evidence-based treatment, and linkage to care for patients with unhealthy substance use.