Why We Shouldn't Eat Meat
Michael Martin, MD, MPH, MBA
Dr. Martin is an Associate Clinical Professor in UCSF’s Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. His medical research has focused on preventive medicine issues such as the relationship of cholesterol levels to heart disease, the effects of passive smoking on heart disease, the cost of firearm injuries, sunlight’s aging effects on the skin, and the excessive use of antibiotics in animal agriculture.
Dr. Martin teaches at UCSF and, for more than 30 years, he saw patients in the General Medicine Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, an affiliate of UCSF.
Dr. Martin is President of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). He also chairs the national office’s Environment & Health (E&H) Committee. He serves on the board of the San Francisco Bay PSR chapter.
Dr. Martin is the Founder & President of Physicians Against Red Meat (PhARM), a nonprofit dedicated to reducing red meat consumption for health and environmental reasons.
Dr. Martin completed his medical training at the University of Chicago, his Internal Medicine Residency at Yale, and his Clinical Epidemiology Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He also received both an MBA and MPH from the University of California, Berkeley.