Prior to becoming chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, Fernando J. Martinez, MD, was professor of internal medicine and associate chief for clinical research in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well as medical director of its Pulmonary Diagnostic Services and co-medical director of the Lung Transplantation Program.
His research interests include COPD, interstitial lung disease, lung transplantation, and lung volume reduction.
He was a member of American Thoracic Society committees that produced guidelines for the management of COPD, respiratory infections, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Dr. Martinez is the former chair of the Clinical Problems Assembly at the American Thoracic Society.
