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Linda W. Martin, MD, MPH

Section Chief, Thoracic Surgery; Professor of Surgery
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Dr. Martin is an Associate Professor of Surgery with Tenure at the University of Virginia. She serves as Interim Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Associate Program Director for Cardiothoracic Residency at UVA. She leads the Thoracic Oncology Tumor Board, the Quality Support Team for thoracic surgery, and co-leads Enhanced Recovery Program for Thoracic Surgery.
Dr. Martin trained at MD Anderson Cancer Center as the Thoracic Track Chief Resident. She also earned a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Texas, Houston. She has been nominated by her physician peers as a Top Doctor in Baltimore (2015), Top Doctor in Virginia (2018), and won the Best Practice Award in 2015 for providing excellent, timely access to high quality care with the highest level of patient and referring doctor satisfaction. In 2019, 2020, and 2021 she scored in the 99th percentile for patient satisfaction on Press-Ganey surveys.
Nationally she is on the Steering Committee for Respiratory Cancers for the Alliance for Clinical Trials, co-leads their Thoracic Surgery group, and participates in several other committees seeking to improve surgical standards for cancer surgery. She is the STS representative to the Commission on Cancer. She is the lead investigator of a stage 3 lung cancer trial sponsored by the Alliance. The National Cancer Institute Gastrointestinal Malignancy Steering Committee appointed her to the Esophagogastric Task Force in 2019 which prioritizes all cooperative group clinical trials related to esophageal and gastric cancer. She is on the Executive Board of the General Thoracic Surgical Club and serves on several Workforce Groups in STS. She is an exam writer for SESAP and SESAT. She was elected to American Association for Thoracic Surgery in 2019. Dr. Martin has served as an editor for the Operative Standards for Cancer Surgery 2nd edition book.

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