{"id":8969,"date":"2011-10-19T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T15:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2012-03-27T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:46:58","slug":"alum-retraces-his-life%e2%80%99s-path-to-harvard-medical-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/alum-retraces-his-life%e2%80%99s-path-to-harvard-medical-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum Retraces His Life\u2019s Path To Harvard Medical Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Courtesy Daily News Record<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HARRISONBURG<\/strong> \u2014 Joseph Martin, a native of Canada and Eastern Mennonite University graduate, credits a firm foun\u00addation in reality, tempered with plenty of humor, as the cornerstone of his tenure as head of one the nation\u2019s most prestigious medical schools.<\/p>\n<p>Martin shared nearly 50 years of medical school wit and wisdom with about 75 people at Eastern Mennonite Univer\u00adsity Tuesday evening. His visit<em> <\/em>was the kickoff of a tour to support his new book, \u201cAlfalfa to Ivy: Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin said his interest in medicine was inspired in part by visits from mission\u00adaries to his childhood church. They shared stories of success, connection and fulfillment in faraway places and he sought to follow in their footsteps.<a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/10\/alum-retraces-his-life%e2%80%99s-path-to-harvard-medical-dean\/josephmartin-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8974\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8974\" src=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/10\/josephmartin3-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/10\/josephmartin3-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/10\/josephmartin3.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the age of 16, I arrived in Edmonton to begin studies at the University of Alberta and I was frightened,\u201d said Martin, quoting from his book. \u201cThe world outside Duchess [Alberta] seemed overwhelm\u00ading, the big city huge and for\u00adbidding. It was vibrant with sophistication I felt I lacked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After three years there, including a year of medical school, Martin felt led to make a change. He trans\u00adferred to then-Eastern Men\u00adnonite College to study mu\u00adsic, church history, ethics and choral conducting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Degree from Eastern Men\u00adnonite in Bible in 1959.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEMC was an exhilarat\u00ading place,\u201d Martin continued. \u201cI had never seen so many el\u00adigible Mennonite girls in one place.\u201d The crowd laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately though, he chose one girl, Rachel Wenger Martin &#8217;61, to be his wife and they\u2019re still married today.<\/p>\n<p>Martin went on to earn a medical degree from the University of Alberta in 1962 and a doctorate in anatomy from the Univer\u00adsity of Rochester in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>In his professional ca\u00adreer, Martin has served as chief of neurology at Mass\u00adachusetts General Hospi\u00adtal, dean of the school of medicine and later chan\u00adcellor of the University of California, San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, he was named dean of the Harvard Facul\u00adty of Medicine, a role he held until 2007. Today, he continues at Harvard as an endowed professor of neurobiology.<\/p>\n<p>After his remarks, Mar\u00adtin responded to questions from the audience. One was what advice would he offer to Congress when it comes to health care reform.<\/p>\n<p>He said in part that the primary care system must be strengthened. That does\u00adn\u2019t mean, he said, it\u2019s time to educate more doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem, he explained, is that right now, a patient\u2019s medical care is spread among so many specialists that it\u2019s hard to manage.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to another question, Martin also said health care reform legisla\u00adtion should be anchored in five fundamental principles: accessibility, accuracy, ad\u00advice, affability, affordability. EMU President Loren Swartzendruber praised Martin\u2019s insight at a recep\u00adtion following the program. \u201cHis wide range of expe\u00adriences puts him in a posi\u00adtion to speak with a great deal of authority,\u201d Swartzen\u00addruber said. \u201cHe\u2019s such a genuine person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least one aspiring doctor, EMU junior Abigail Carr, came away inspired by Martin\u2019s talk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was fascinating to hear all the different in\u00adsights he\u2019s had over the course of his life in very relevant topics \u2026 and how it connects to the future,\u201d said Carr, who is studying premedicine and biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Daily News Record HARRISONBURG \u2014 Joseph Martin, a native of Canada and Eastern Mennonite University graduate, credits a firm foun\u00addation in reality, tempered with plenty of humor, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/alum-retraces-his-life%e2%80%99s-path-to-harvard-medical-dean\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Alum Retraces His Life\u2019s Path To Harvard Medical Dean<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":9050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,266,5583,14184,12579,5623,5640,5730],"tags":[12258],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-8969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-campus-community","category-campus-guests","category-pre-professional-health","category-special-programs","category-suter-science-center","category-undergraduate-programs","tag-joseph-martin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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