Professor Dr. Maylyn Martinez

Biography

Maylyn Martinez, MD, MSc is a clinician-scientist in the section of Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago. Her research primarily focuses on understanding how clinical, demographic, and psychosocial variables contribute to the risk of hospital-acquired disability (HAD) and functional decline among hospitalized patients. She employs advanced methodologies such as predictive algorithms and artificial intelligence/machine learning to inform the development of clinical decision support tools aimed at optimizing the rehabilitation care of patients. Dr. Martinez's work also addresses critical health disparities, examining how factors such as race and neighborhood social disadvantage influence functional outcomes and the utilization of rehabilitation services. She has published numerous articles in her field and is actively involved in national scientific meetings, with her research recognized in the Top 10 Articles in Hospital Medicine for 2022 by the Society of General Internal Medicine. She has received various honors, including recognition for her clinical abstract at the Janet Rowley Department of Medicine Research Day and participation in SGIM's Unified Leadership Training Diversity Leadership Program.

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