Causation - Fitness for Duty - Impairment Ratings

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr. Martin previously served as the Medical Director for UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Occupational Medicine in Sioux City but now is at CNOS providing the same comprehensive menu of occupational health services as always. The majority of his practice is related to musculoskeletal medicine, which is directly secondary to the industry in the area; he often speaks of “meatpacking is my life” as he services one of the largest meatpacking facilities in the world in Dakota City, NE. Dr. Martin has served on multiple levels within the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and is a past president. He has served on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians (now known as the International Academy of Independent Medical Evaluators) and is a Past President. He is a Past President of the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians and the IAFP Foundation. While Foundation President, he was involved in the finalization of the Iowa Health Rural Health Loan Repayment Program, a combined public-private endeavor. He was given the AADEP President’s Award for Volunteer Service four different years and Freeman Award as Outstanding Educator in 2005, and the organization’s first Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. He was given the Janet M Wee Award by the IAFP for outstanding contributions to the organization. He is also currently on the Board of Directors of the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association. He is currently the co-chair of the AMA Guides Editorial Panel and teaches CME courses on impairment evaluations to multiple stakeholder groups. He is an accomplished author, having written several articles for the MRO Update newsletter. He penned book chapters for three AMA books: The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Disease and Injury Causation, The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Work Ability and Return to Work, and The AMA Guides to Navigating Disability Benefit Systems. In 2015, he was the lead author and editor for the text CRPS –What is the Evidence? a project of Veritas Medicus. the AADEP Foundation. In the spring of 2018, his book, Independent Medical Evaluations – A Practical Guide was released by Springer Publications. He is a sought-after expert witness as he brings a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to questions that arise in the medico legal arena. He is both personable and authoritative in depositions and at trial and has a writing style that is used in expert reports that is akin to storytelling, thought to be the best approach for bringing often technical and difficult to master medical concepts to the non-medical reader.