Dr. Dan Martin is the scientific and medical director of the Endometriosis Foundation of America. He began studying endometriosis in 1970, and focused his research on the condition in 1981. His endometriosis publications from 1983 to the present are covered on Google Scholar.
He is a professor emeritus of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, a community member of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institutional Review Board, and a life fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
He has been divisional director of reproductive endocrinology and divisional director of minimally invasive surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and divisional director of medical education at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes. He is a past president of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists and the Gynecologic Laser Society.