PROGRAMS FOR FELLOWS AND JUNIOR FACULTY

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND/HARVARD UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP IN MINORITY HEALTH POLICY

FELLOWS' BIOS: 2001-2002

OCTAVIO N. MARTINEZ JR., M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.

Psychiatrist, Executive Director, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Dr. Martinez’s main interests include providing quality mental health care to the underserved and recruiting underrepresented minorities into the health professions. He is currently part of a team dedicated to establishing and staffing a 23-hour hospital-based mental health crisis unit at Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City, NC. This unit will have a 10-county catchment area serving the rural northeast region of North Carolina. Dr. Martinez was formerly an Assistant Professor with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio’s Department of Psychiatry. During his tenure, he was Director of the Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service for University Hospital at the South Texas Medical Center and for the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, Co-Director of the Behavioral Science course for first-year and second-year medical students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio’s Medical School, and helped establish mental health services for the CommuniCare Clinics of San Antonio. He also has been a Special Emphasis Panel reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, since 2002.

Dr. Martinez received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX in 1997. Subsequently, he completed a psychiatry residency and a Chief Residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, in 2001. He received his M.P.H. at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2002 as a CFHU Fellow.

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