Dr Finbarr Martin
 Dr Finbarr Martin is the acting National Clinical Director for Older People at the Department of Health, a senior research fellow (visiting) at King’s College London and a consultant physician at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
After training in general medicine and completing research in the clinical and biochemical aspects of acquired muscle wasting in adults, Dr Martin trained in geriatric medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, London, and was appointed consultant physician in general and geriatric medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital.
He has worked in a broad range of services for older people in acute hospitals and in community settings. His clinical work currently includes inpatient acute care and rehabilitation, clinics for falls, Parkinson’s disease and mobility problems, and clinical liaison with Intermediate Care and care homes in Lambeth.
He has led the development and evaluation of novel clinical service models for older people, including several national “firsts”, such as domiciliary based intermediate care and inter-specialty hospital liaison teams. He has worked in an advisory capacity for the NHS locally and nationally, currently as specialist clinical adviser on older people to the Department of Health. He teaches medical students and co-supervises the health and healthcare module of the Institute’s Gerontology MSc.
He is the clinical lead on the series of national audits on falls and bone health treatment of older people, funded by the Healthcare Commission (2005-2011) and managed from the Royal College of Physicians of London. He is currently the chair of the British Geriatrics Society section on falls and bone health and co-chair of the nation a hip fracture database, an audit run in conjunction with the NHS Information Centre.
Awards
BSc Medical Sciences/Physiology, London, 1970
MB BS London, 1974
MRCP (Royal Colleges of Medicine, UK), 1977
MSc Biochemistry (distinction), London, 1982
MD (by research thesis on muscle wasting). London, 1984
FRCP London, 1990
FRCSLT (Hon), 1996
GMC Registration: No. 2212234: General Medicine and Geriatric Medicine
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