Emily J. Martin, MD, MS

Dr. Martin is a palliative medicine physician, health services researcher, and physician informaticist whose work focuses on systems-level interventions designed to improve the delivery of timely, high-quality palliative care. She has advanced the integration of palliative care and collection of patient-reported outcomes into standard radiation oncology, medical oncology, and surgical oncology care both at UCLA and nationally. 

1. Brauer ER, Choi KR, Petersen L, Ganz PA, St. John MA, Wong DJ, Martin EJ. Social wellbeing, loneliness, and symptom burden in head and neck cancer survivors: a latent class analysis. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology 2026; 44(3):275-292. 
2. Chen H, Evans L, Labib M, Schaaff C, Ashendouek M, Sajed D, Chai Ho W, Wong D, Martin EJ, St. John M. Multidisciplinary care for anaplastic thyroid cancer - incorporating palliative care as a standard of care. Laryngoscope 2025;135(9):3444-3451.
3. Martin E and Nyakudarika N. “Palliative and Supportive Care.” In Chi, Dizon, Yashar, and Khabele (Eds.), Principals and Practice of Gynecologic Oncology. Wolters Kluwer, 2024.
4. Martin E and Barrett T. “Basic communication frameworks.” In N. Vapiwala, J. Jones, and K. Dharmarajan (Eds.), Palliative Radiation Oncology, 1st Edition. Elsevier, 2022.
5. Martin E, Bruggeman A, Nalawade V, Sarkar R, Murphy D. Palliative radiation therapy compared to esophageal stent placement in the palliative management of patients with metastatic esophageal cancer. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 2020;18(5):569-574.