Marlene Martin, MD

Marlene Martin, MD

Director of Addiction Care Team, Assistant Clinical Professor

University of California, San Francisco at Zuckerberg San Francisco General

Marlene Martin, MD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF and a hospitalist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She is driven to improve care for vulnerable populations in the safety net. Drawn to medicine to address health inequities and social injustices, her interests lie in systems improvement with a focus on care transitions and addiction medicine. Marlene was born and raised in Los Angeles and is a first-generation college graduate. She attended college and medical school at Stanford and was a NIH Fogarty Scholar in Peru. Her bilingual and bicultural Mexican immigrant background influenced her to serve vulnerable populations.

Marlene is the physician lead for equitable care, a member of the Health Equity Council, and co-chair of the care transitions task force. Within the School of Medicine, she is a coach for medical students in the UCSF San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (PRIME).

Marlene is board certified in addiction medicine and founded and directs the Addiction Care Team, a novel interprofessional consult service that delivers harm reduction, evidence-based care, and linkage to treatment for hospitalized people with substance use disorders.

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