Ryan Matthew Martin, M.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Neurological Surgery and Neurology
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Specialties
Neurocritical Care
Brain Injury Medicine
Locations and Contact
Ernest E. Tschannen Eye Institute
PM&R Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Clinic
4860 Y Street
Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone: 916-734-7041
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Physician Referrals
Philosophy of Care
In the neurointensive care unit, Dr. Martin provides detailed, individualized care to patients. His patients, and their families, are often going through the most difficult challenge of their lives and he is there to help them through the storm. His team uses multi-modal monitoring to allow them to individualize their treatment plans for each patient. Their goal is to prevent further injury and to optimize recovery.
In his multidisciplinary TBI clinic, Dr. Martin works with therapists, social workers, and neuropsychologists to guide patients through their injury and towards community re-integration. His goal is to get patients back to as close as normal as possible prior to their TBI.
Clinical Interests
As a neurointensivist, Dr. Martin sees patients with neurological disease that requires ICU level care. This includes such diseases as traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, stroke, neuromuscular weakness, and status epilepticus.
He also leads a multi-disciplinary TBI clinic, specializing in the needs of of survivors from recent and remote injury. His clinic includes experts from neuropsychology, occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, social work and physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Martin's main research focus is in TBI outcomes. He is engaged in a number of observational clinical trials investigating the risk factors for post-traumatic epilepsy, particularly neuro-inflammation. Using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, Dr. Martin is characterizing how neuro-inflammation changes overtime and how this impacts recovery..
Division
Neurological Surgery
Neurology
Undergraduate School
B.S., Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, UC Davis, Sacramento CA 2004
Medical School
M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles CA 2010
Internship
Internal Medicine, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles CA 2010-2011
Residency
Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles CA 2011-2014
Fellowship
Neurocritical Care, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles CA 2014-2016
Teaching in Excellence Award, UC Davis Department of Neurological Surgery, 2019
CICARE Award, Patient Care, UCLA, 2016
Resident Scholarship of the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, 2014
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1TW35rchvfw5q/bibliography/public/
Scurfield AK, Wilson MD, Gurkoff G, Martin R, Shahlaie K. Identification of Demographic and Clinical Prognostic Factors in Traumatic Intraventricular Hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care. 2023 Feb;38(1):149-157. doi:10.1007/s12028-022-01587-z. Epub 2022 Sep 1. PMID:36050537.
Lui A, Vanleuven J, Perekopskiy D, Liu D, Xu D, Alzayat O, Elgokhy T, Do T, Gann M, Martin R, Liu DZ. FDA-Approved Kinase Inhibitors in Preclinical and Clinical Trials for Neurological Disorders. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2022 Dec 13;15(12):1546. doi:10.3390/ph15121546. PMID:36558997.
Li W, Wittmann RA, Farias DR, Bigler ED, Martin RM. Cognitive profile of mild traumatic brain injury patients requiring acute hospitalization - A UC davis cognitive screener (UCD-Cog) study. Brain Inj. 2022 Jan 2;36(1):59-71. doi:10.1080/02699052.2022.2034968. Epub 2022 Feb 10. PMID:35143336.
Zhou W, Kholiqov O, Zhu J, Zhao M, Zimmermann LL, Martin RM, Lyeth BG, Srinivasan VJ. Functional interferometric diffusing wave spectroscopy of the human brain. Sci Adv. 2021 May 12;7(20):eabe0150. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abe0150. PMID:33980479.
Castillo R, Chan A, Atallah S, Derry K, Baje M, Zimmermann LL, Martin R, Groysman L, Stern-Nezer S, Minokadeh A, Nova A, Huang W, Cang W, Schomer K. Correction to: Treatment of adults with intracranial hemorrhage on apixaban or rivaroxaban with prothrombin complex concentrate products. J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2021 Jan;51(1):246. doi:10.1007/s11239-020-02197-2. Erratum for: J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2021 Jan;51(1):151-158. Erratum in: J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2020 Oct 31;: PMID:32578054.
Picinich C, Kennedy J, Thind H, Foreman C, Martin RM, Zimmermann LL. Continuous Electroencephalographic Training for Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit Nurses: A Feasibility Study. J Neurosci Nurs. 2020 Oct;52(5):245-250. doi:10.1097/JNN.0000000000000535. PMID:32740316.
Martin R, Taylor S, Palmieri TL. Mortality following combined burn and traumatic brain injuries: An analysis of the national trauma data bank of the American College of Surgeons. Burns. 2020 Sep;46(6):1289-1296. doi:10.1016/j.burns.2020.06.022. Epub 2020 Jul 3. PMID:32680663.
Panos NG, Cook AM, John S, Jones GM; Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) Pharmacy Study Group. Factor Xa Inhibitor-Related Intracranial Hemorrhage: Results From a Multicenter, Observational Cohort Receiving Prothrombin Complex Concentrates. Circulation. 2020 May 26;141(21):1681-1689. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.045769. Epub 2020 Apr 8. PMID:32264698.
Garza N, Toussi A, Wilson M, Shahlaie K, Martin R. The Increasing Age of TBI Patients at a Single Level 1 Trauma Center and the Discordance Between GCS and CT Rotterdam Scores in the Elderly. Front Neurol. 2020 Feb 20;11:112. doi:10.3389/fneur.2020.00112. PMID:32153493.