Program Analyst, Safe Patient Handling and Mobility
VHA Occupational Health and Safety 19HEF
Marie Martin is an industrial hygienist by training, with her PhD in occupational and environmental health sciences from the University of Washington. She led curriculum for an OSHA training center before joining the VA North Texas Health Care System as an industrial hygienist in 2008. Within 2 months of arrival, she was planning for ceiling mounted patient lifts, and she was a Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) facility coordinator through 2022. In 2014 she started helping with the national VA SPHM program, led it from 2015 to 2016, and has assisted with its leadership ever since, finally joining the national program in 2022. She has been working with VA perioperative experts toward safer patient handling in the perioperative environment since 2018.