Matthew J. Martin, MD

Colonel (retired) Matthew J. Martin, MD, FACS is the Director of Acute Care Surgery Research and Chief of Emergency General Surgery for the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Los Angeles General Medical Center and an attending acute care surgeon at the University of Southern California Keck Medical Center. He also holds a dual appointment with the Division of Upper GI and General Surgery and maintains an active clinical practice in advanced laparoscopy, robotics, and bariatric surgery.

Dr. Martin retired from the U.S. Army in 2018. He served in a variety of roles at Madigan Army Medical Center and representing the U.S. Army, including the Army Chair for the ACS Committee on Trauma. He completed 5 combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he served in a variety of leadership roles ranging from Commander of a Forward Surgical Team to the Chief Medical Officer responsible for all surgical teams in Iraq and Syria. He founded a highly productive and continuously grant-funded trauma research laboratory at Madigan Army Medical Center with a focus on military and combat-relevant research and was the chief editor and co-author of a best-selling textbook on combat trauma management, Front Line Surgery. During that time Dr. Martin was also faculty at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center where he served as the Director of Trauma Informatics.