Dr. Martin is a physician and an attorney who was instrumental in drafting and supporting legislation in 2019 to enact the Colorado Candor Act.
Dr. Martin is board certified in emergency medicine and served on active duty in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during her residency training at Brooke Army Medical Center and as an attending physician at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, where she was Director of Emergency Department Quality Assurance/Risk Management, and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She was the medical director of a 25,000 visit emergency department in the Denver area for ten years and served on the medical executive committee of the Medical Center of Aurora in Aurora, Colorado, for seven years before deciding to pursue her law degree. She began working for COPIC, a physician-directed professional liability insurer, in 2011 and is currently a Deputy General Counsel. In that role she addresses legal issues affecting health care professionals and health care facilities, provides seminars on various health law topics, and is actively involved in reviewing legislative and regulatory changes. She has been President of the Candor Institute since it was established as a public charity in 2020.