Blake Martin, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Critical Care Medicine

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Medical School
  • MD, University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center (2013)
Undergraduate School
  • MA, Princeton University (NJ) (2007)
Internship
  • Children's Hospital/Boston Medical Center Program (2014)
Residency
  • Children's Hospital/Boston Medical Center Program, Pediatrics (2016)
Fellowships
  • University of Colorado (Children's Hospital Colorado) Program, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (2020)
Languages
English, Spanish
Department
Pediatrics-Critical Care Medicine

Professional Titles

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Critical Care Attending Physician
  • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Publications

  • Martin B, Bennett TD. Sepsis Computable Phenotypes in the Service of Observational Research. Crit Care Med. 2019 Feb;47(2):303-305. PubMed PMID: 30653066
  • Zhang XA, Yates A, Vasilevsky N, Gourdine JP, Callahan TJ, Carmody LC, Danis D, Joachimiak MP, Ravanmehr V, Pfaff ER, Champion J, Robasky K, Xu H, Fecho K, Walton NA, Zhu RL, Ramsdill J, Mungall CJ, Köhler S, Haendel MA, McDonald CJ, Vreeman DJ, Peden DB, Bennett TD, Feinstein JA, Martin B, Stefanski AL, Hunter LE, Chute CG, Robinson PN. Semantic integration of clinical laboratory tests from electronic health records for deep phenotyping and biomarker discovery. NPJ Digit Med. 2019;2. PubMed PMID: 31119199
  • Dominguez SR, Martin B, Heizer H, Jone PN, Tong S, Davidson J, Anderson MS, Glodé MP. Procalcitonin (PCT) and Kawasaki Disease: Does PCT Correlate With IVIG-Resistant Disease, Admission to the Intensive Care Unit, or Development of Coronary Artery Lesions?. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2016 Sep;5(3):297-302. PubMed PMID: 26407256
  • Flood SM, Osborne CM, Martin B, Derderian SC, Stenson E, Grubenhoff JA. Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Pediatric Patient Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Case Rep Pediatr. 2020;2020:8885022. PubMed PMID: 33062363
  • Martin B, Mulhern B, Majors M, Rolison E, McCombs T, Smith G, Fisher C, Diaz E, Downen D, Brittan M. Improving Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Discharge Timeliness of Infants with Bronchiolitis Using Clinical Decision Support. Appl Clin Inform. 2023 Mar;14(2):392-399. PubMed PMID: 36792057
  • Frank B, Davidson J, Tong S, Martin B, Heizer H, Anderson MS, Glode MP, Dominguez SR, Jone PN. Myocardial Strain and Strain Rate in Kawasaki Disease: Range, Recovery, and Relationship to Systemic Inflammation/Coronary Artery Dilation. J Clin Exp Cardiolog. 2016 Apr;7(4). PubMed PMID: 27182455
  • Heneghan JA, Walker SB, Fawcett A, Bennett TD, Dziorny AC, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Farris RWD, Winter MC, Badke C, Martin B, Brown SR, McCrory MC, Ness-Cochinwala M, Rogerson C, Baloglu O, Harwayne-Gidansky I, Hudkins MR, Kamaleswaran R, Gangadharan S, Tripathi S, Mendonca EA, Markovitz BP, Mayampurath A, Spaeder MC. The Pediatric Data Science and Analytics Subgroup of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators Network: Use of Supervised Machine Learning Applications in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Research. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2023 Dec 7. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38059732
  • Callahan TJ, Stefanski AL, Wyrwa JM, Zeng C, Ostropolets A, Banda JM, Baumgartner WA Jr, Boyce RD, Casiraghi E, Coleman BD, Collins JH, Deakyne Davies SJ, Feinstein JA, Lin AY, Martin B, Matentzoglu NA, Meeker D, Reese J, Sinclair J, Taneja SB, Trinkley KE, Vasilevsky NA, Williams AE, Zhang XA, Denny JC, Ryan PB, Hripcsak G, Bennett TD, Haendel MA, Robinson PN, Hunter LE, Kahn MG. Ontologizing health systems data at scale: making translational discovery a reality. NPJ Digit Med. 2023 May 19;6(1):89. PubMed PMID: 37208468
  • Martin B, Mulhern B, Majors M, Rolison E, McCombs T, Smith G, Fisher C, Diaz E, Downen D, Brittan M. Improving Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Discharge Timeliness of Infants with Bronchiolitis Using Clinical Decision Support. Appl Clin Inform. 2023 Mar;14(2):392-399. PubMed PMID: 36792057
  • Martin B, Rao S, Bennett TD. Disparities in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children and COVID-19 Across the Organ Dysfunction Continuum. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):e2249552. PubMed PMID: 36602806
  • Welter KJ, Gordon S, Snyder P, Martin B. A case report of an 18-year-old receiving nebulized lidocaine for treatment of COVID-19 cough. Heart Lung. 2023 Jan-Feb;57:140-143. PubMed PMID: 36201924
  • Martin B, DeWitt PE, Albers D, Bennett TD. Development of a Pediatric Blood Pressure Percentile Tool for Clinical Decision Support. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Oct 3;5(10):e2236918. PubMed PMID: 36251296
  • Welter KJ, Gordon S, Snyder P, Martin B. A case report of an 18-year-old receiving nebulized lidocaine for treatment of COVID-19 cough. Heart Lung. 2023 Jan-Feb;57:140-143. PubMed PMID: 36201924
  • Martin B, DeWitt PE, Scott HF, Parker S, Bennett TD. Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Absence of Serious Bacterial Infection at PICU Admission. Hosp Pediatr. 2022 Jun 1;12(6):590-603. PubMed PMID: 35634885
  • Martin B, DeWitt PE, Russell S, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Haendel MA, Moffitt R, Bennett TD. Acute Upper Airway Disease in Children With the Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant of SARS-CoV-2-A Report From the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative. JAMA Pediatr. 2022 Aug 1;176(8):819-821. PubMed PMID: 35426941
  • Martin B, DeWitt PE, Russell S, Anand A, Bradwell KR, Bremer C, Gabriel D, Girvin AT, Hajagos JG, McMurry JA, Neumann AJ, Pfaff ER, Walden A, Wooldridge JT, Yoo YJ, Saltz J, Gersing KR, Chute CG, Haendel MA, Moffitt R, Bennett TD. Characteristics, Outcomes, and Severity Risk Factors Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Children in the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Feb 1;5(2):e2143151. PubMed PMID: 35133437
  • Fritz CQ, Martin B, Riccolo M, Fennell M, Rolison E, Carpenter T, Bajaj L, Tyler A, Brittan M. Reducing PICU-to-Floor Time-to-Transfer Decision in Critically Ill Bronchiolitis Patients using Quality Improvement Methodology. Pediatr Qual Saf. 2022 Jan-Feb;7(1):e506. PubMed PMID: 35071949
  • Martin B, Rao S, Bennett TD. Disparities in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children and COVID-19 Across the Organ Dysfunction Continuum. Jama Netw Open. 2023;5(1):e2249552-e.

Professional Memberships

  • Society of Critical Care Medicine, Member
  • American Association of Pediatrics, Member
  • American Medical Association, Member

Practice Locations

Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-777-1234

Hospital Affiliation
  • Children's Hospital Colorado

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Pediatrics, Board Certification
  • Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Clinical Interests
Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Decision Support, Antibiotic Decision-Making

Personal Interests
Father of two wonderful kids. Interests include hiking, skiing, tennis, and discussing the origins of the universe.


School of Medicine

CU Anschutz
Fitzsimons Building

13001 East 17th Place

Aurora, CO 80045

303.724.5375

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