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Maylyn Martinez, MD, MSc, is a clinician-scientist in the section of Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on understanding how clinical, demographic, and psychosocial variables contribute to the risk of hospital-acquired disability (HAD) and functional decline. She utilizes this information to inform the development of tools such as predictive algorithms and artificial intelligence/machine learning to optimize the triage of hospitalized patients for rehabilitation by physical and occupational therapists. Dr. Martinez's work emphasizes the prevention of health disparities and aims to understand the differences in race and neighborhood-level social disadvantage as they relate to functional outcomes in hospitalized patients. She has published numerous articles and presented at national scientific meetings. Notably, her work was recognized as one of the Top 10 Articles in Hospital Medicine by the Society of General Internal Medicine for 2022. Her honors include a clinical abstract award at the Janet Rowley Department of Medicine Research Day in 2020 and participation in the SGIM's Unified Leadership Training Diversity Leadership Program. She has been chosen to serve on various local and national committees and editorial boards.
Department of Philosophy