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Linda W. Martin, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

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

Linda Martin is a Tenured Professor of Surgery at University of Virginia. She is Chief of Thoracic Surgery, and co-leads ERAS for Thoracic Surgery, and sits on the International ERAS Society Thoracic guidelines team. Since 2019, she has achieved 99%ile Press-Ganey patient satisfaction scores for 6 consecutive years. She was awarded the Dean's Clinical Excellence Award in 2022. She served as the Clerkship Director for the Dept. of Surgery 2017-21, and in 2019 became the Associate Program Director for CT Surgery at UVA. She was named a Top Doctor in Baltimore (2015), Top Doctor in Virginia (2018, 2023), and Best Practice Award in 2015 for providing excellent, timely access to high quality care with the highest level of patient and referring doctor satisfaction. At UVA, her team has achieved 3 star STS rating for lobectomy quality multiple times.
Her work with IASLC includes co-chairing the 2024 World Lung conference, and appointment to the staging committee for lung cancer. She is Vice-Chair for Respiratory Cancers for the Alliance, and Thoracic Surgery group chair. She is the STS representative to the Commission on Cancer. She is a lead investigator of multiple Alliance trials, and a global PI of an industry lung cancer trial. She was appointed to the Thoracic Malignancy Steering Committee for the NCI in 2024. She is Vice-Chair of the General Thoracic Surgical Club and will ascend as the Chair in 2026. She serves on several workforces in the STS and committees for AATS. She is an exam writer for SESAP and SESAT. She is an editor for Operative Standards for Cancer Surgery, and Clinical Lung Cancer.
She has authored more than 80 articles in journals including JCO, Annals of Surgery, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, and JTCVS. Dr. Martin has been invited to speak at numerous national and international meetings.

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