Dr. Renée Martin reviews medical content for Healthwise, a nonprofit
organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. Dr.
Martin is a professor in the Department of Medical Genetics and Associate
Director of the Institute for Maternal and Child Health at the University of
Calgary in Calgary, Alberta. Dr. Martin supervised postdoctoral fellows,
research fellows, and instructed residents in her genetic counseling
clinic.
Dr. Martin has reviewed grants for the National Institutes of Health,
NATO, the Medical Research Council of Canada, Health and Welfare Canada, March
of Dimes, British Columbia Health Care Research Foundation, and other Canadian
and United States organizations. She has provided many continuing education
courses for nurses and physicians and has been an invited speaker at many
national and international medical conferences. Dr. Martin has reviewed
articles for a number of American and Canadian professional journals.
Currently, Dr. Martin serves on the editorial board for Systems
Biology in Reproductive Medicine, Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, and
the Canada Research Chairs' College of Reviewers. She is an executive board
member of the Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis International Society. She was awarded
the Canada Research Chair in Genetics in 2002 and was elected a fellow of the
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2006.
Board Certifications
Fellow, Canadian College of Medical
Geneticists-1981
Healthwise Knowledgebase Topics Reviewed
Genetic Testing
DNA
Fingerprinting
Karyotyping
Galactosemia
Testing
Tay-Sach's Disease
Tay-Sach's Screening
Education
PhD: Medical Genetics, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 1975
Academic Appointments
Professor: Medical Genetics, University of
Calgary, Calgary, AB, 1988-present
Associate Professor: Pediatrics,
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, 1982-1988
Assistant Professor:
Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, 1978-1982
Professional Affiliations
American Society for Human Reproduction and
Embryology
American Society of Human Genetics
Canadian
College of Medical Geneticists
Canadian Fertility and Andrology
Society
Canadian Genetics Society
European Society of
Human Genetics
European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
International Society of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis
Selected Publications
Martin RH, Rademaker AW, Greene C, Ko E,
Hoang T, Barclay L, Chernos J (2003). A comparison of the frequency of sperm
chromosome abnormalities in men with mild, moderate, and severe
oligozoospermia. Biology of Reproduction, 69(2):
535-539.
Sun F, Oliver-Bonet M, Liehr T, Starke H, Ko E, Rademaker
A, Navarro J, Benet J, Martin RH (2004). Human male recombination maps for
individual chromosomes. American Journal of Human Genetics, 74(3): 521-531.
Martin RH (2005). FISH-Human sperm
cells. In J Fuchs et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Medical Genomics and Proteomics, pp. 478-481. New York: Marcel
Decker.
Martin RH (2005). Mechanisms of nondisjunction in human
spermatogenesis. Cytogenetics and Genome Research,
111(3-4): 245-249.
Oliver-Bonet M, Turek P, Sun F, Ko E, Martin RH
(2005). Temporal progression of recombination in human males. Molecular Human Reproduction, 11(7): 517-522.
