David Martin

David Martin heads the Institute for Integrative Medicine and holds the Gerhard Kienle Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine. He is also co-director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School for Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences (IGIM) and the Research and Teaching Center Herdecke (FLZ). He was born in Vermont, USA, in 1973 and grew up in the USA, France and England. He is a pediatrician, pediatric endocrinologist, oncologist, diabetologist and hematologist. 

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Academic career

Since 2018
Director, Institute for Integrative Medicine

Since 2017
Full Professor and holder of the Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University

Since 2017
Co-Director, Research and Learning Center Herdecke

Feb. 2014
Appointment as adjunct professor at the University of Tübingen

July 2012
Additional specialisation in paediatric haematology and oncology

June 2011
Postdoctoral university lecturing qualification. Venia legendi: Paediatrics; since then faculty member and contract lecturer at the University of Tübingen

Feb. 2011
Additional qualification in paediatric diabetology and endocrinology

Jan. 2010
Specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine

May 2004
Obtained a doctorate in medicine (Magna Cum Laude) with the neuroophthalmological thesis "On the interaction between pupil width and perimetry"

Jan. 2003
Full licence to practice medicine (University of Tübingen)

Medical activity

Since Nov. 2012
Senior physician in the Department of Paediatrics at the Filder Clinic; Head of General Paediatrics, Acute Psychosomatics, Endocrinology, Oncology

Jan. 2005 – Oct. 2012
Physician and specialist at the University Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Tübingen

Sept. 2003 – Dec. 2004
Research and Clinical Fellow, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, Western Australia

Jan. 2003 – Aug. 2003
Resident in the Section of Paediatric Endocrinology, Tübingen

July 2001 – Dec. 2002
Junior doctor (AiP) in the Paediatric Endocrinology Section, University Children's Hospital Tübingen
 

Further activities

• Member of the Board of Trustees, Heliopolis University, Egypt
• Advanced Pediatric Life Support certification, Perth Australia, 2004
• Clinical examiner of several Phase II, III and IV studies
• Certified Clinical Investigator for ICH-GCP (International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use - Good Clinical Practice) and German Drug Law (AMG)
• Certificate of the Competence Centre for University Didactics in Medicine of the Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen (in cooperation with the Medical Faculties of the Universities of Freiburg and Ulm) obtained in 2003
• Obesity trainer
• Reviewer for scientific journals
• Child and adolescent psychotherapy

Prizes/Awards

• First Prize “Most innovative Registry in Germany” with the FeverApp Registry www.feverapp.de, 2023
• First Prize for Scientific Poster of the German Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, 2021
• Holzschuh Prize for Complementary Medicine of the Hufeland Society (as Senior Author)  
• First prize for scientific poster at the GKH Research Day 2018
• Jürgen-Bierich Prize 2009 for the Best Clinical Research Paper; awarded yearly by the Germany Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology
• Jürgen-Bierich Prize 2006 for the Best Clinical Research Paper; awarded yearly by the Germany Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology
• Best Poster Prize - Adult Medicine
• Point-of-care diabetes diagnosis in a remote Indigenous Australian community
• Royal Australian College of Physicians Meeting, Canberra 2004
• First Prize 2004 Judith-Esser-Mittag-Prize of the German Child and Youth Gynecology Society for the Best Research Paper
• Eighteen-month Novo Nordisk Fellowship in Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth, Australia Awarded by the German Endocrine Society in 2004