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David Martin

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Prof. Dr. David Martin

David Martin

Prof. Dr. David Martin (born 1973) is an American-French paediatrician, paediatric endocrinologist, diabetologist, oncologist and haematologist living in Germany. He holds the Gerhard Kienle Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine at the University of Witten/Herdecke and is an adjunct professor of paediatrics at the University of Tübingen. Martin researches and teaches in his areas of expertise and on fever management, antibiotic resistance, digitalisation in children's health, integrative medicine and One Health. He is committed to anthroposophic and integrative approaches to medicine and has received several awards for his clinical research.

Early life

David Martin was born in Vermont, USA, in 1973. He grew up in the USA, France and England.

Education

Martin completed his medical studies and received his doctorate magna cum laude from the University of Tübingen in May 2004 with a neuro-ophthalmological thesis on ‘The interaction between pupil width and perimetry’. He received his licence to practise medicine from the University of Tübingen in January 2003. In June 2011, he qualified as a professor (venia legendi in paediatrics) and became a faculty member and private lecturer at the University of Tübingen. His training included placements in Germany and Australia, including a fellowship at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth from September 2003 to December 2004.

Professional career

From 2012 to 2017, he was senior physician in the paediatrics department at Filderklinik. In February 2014, he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Tübingen. Since 2017, he has been Full Professor and holder of the Gerhard Kienle Chair for Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine at the University of Witten/Herdecke. Since then, he has also headed the Institute for Integrative Medicine (IfIM) and is co-director of the Herdecke Research and Teaching Centre (FLZ) and the Interdisciplinary Graduate College for Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences (IGIM). Martin is a trusted professor of the German National Academic Foundation.

Martin is the founder and director of the Clinical Foundation Course at the Eugen Kolisko Academy, a tutor at anthroposophic-drs-training.org, and co-founder and co-director of lebens-Weise.org.

Research and contributions

FeverApp

Fever: Inspired by the fact that most animals produce fever and survive better when the fever is supported with warmth rather than suppressed, and by the fact that integrative and anthroposophic doctors prescribe far fewer antibiotics and antibiotics with better patient satisfaction and outcomes, Martin examined all guidelines on fever worldwide and then initiated a national guideline for Germany, which he developed on behalf of the German Society for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine with 13 professional associations and a patient organisation, funded by the Innovation Fund of the Joint Federal Committee. At the same time, with €2 million in funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, he developed the FeverApp Register and the FeverApp with Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Jenetzky, which won first prize for the most innovative register in Germany in 2023. He then received €2.6 million from the Innovation Fund of the Joint Federal Committee for the FitFürFieber project.

Digitalisation

Together with Dr Silke Schwarz, Martin initiated the National AWMF Guideline on the Prevention of Dysregulated Screen Use in Children and Adolescents on behalf of the German Society for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and with 11 professional associations and organisations. At the same time, they initiated a series of action research projects to reduce children's screen time, such as www.medienfasten.org, www.mediafasting.org, www.bildschirmfrei-bis-3.de; www.blikk3.de, or ‘Bildschirmfrei – Sei dabei!’ (Screen-free – Join in!), which is funded with £3.7 million from the Innovation Fund of the Joint Education Committee.

In addition, Martin, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, investigated the social credit system in the People's Republic of China and scoring in the West (SCHUFA et al.) to promote European-Chinese cooperation in the sub-project. ‘Intercultural analysis of sources on science and health’

Medicine from Soil to Soul – One Health

  • Together with Dr Benjamin Busse, Martin received funding from the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture for the PlantaMedia® project – an internet database that pools knowledge on the location and effectiveness of medicinal plants.
  • Medical-Agricultural Academic Year at Dottenfelder Hof: Together with Martin von Mackensen, Martin inaugurated an academic year in which doctors, medical students and people from the health sector study biodynamic agriculture and health together with people from the agricultural sector for a whole year, with the option of graduating as preventologists.
  • Piglet study: Together with Dr. Petra Weiermayer, Martin received millions in funding for the development and implementation of studies on reducing the use of antibiotics through integrative approaches in veterinary medicine.
  • Martin and his team are also researching Taiji and eurythmy as part of the ENTAIER multicentre study on the effectiveness of Taiji and eurythmy as fall prevention in old age.
  • In ‘On the Earth We Want to Live’ (2023), Martin and paediatrician Georg Soldner describe sustainable, planet-friendly medicine.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Martin wrote scientific publications that he had reviewed by the boards of the DGKJ and members of STIKO, and on this basis advocated a scientific approach to coronavirus vaccination, and in particular caution regarding recommendations for children until reliable data is available.

Awards

Martin has received several awards for his research, including the Jürgen Bierich Prize from the German Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (2006 and 2009 for the best clinical research work). Other honours include the Judith Esser Mittag Prize from the German Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology (2004), the Holzschuh Prize for Complementary Medicine, several poster prizes and first prize for the most innovative registry in Germany (FeverApp Registry, 2023). He was a recipient of the Novo Nordisk Fellowship of the German Society of Endocrinology (2004).

Publications (selection)

Martin has published over 180 peer-reviewed publications, 12 book chapters and one book, and has been cited over 2800 times by other authors in peer-reviewed publications. Identifiers/ORCID: 0000-0002-4279-3032; ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Martin-118

Media contributions (selection)

  • David Martin| Screens, artificial intelligence and robotics – a lecture by David Martin | 2026
  • Good or dangerous?: Lowering fever – does it make sense? | Health! | BR Television | Television | BR.de
  • SternTV: https://bildschirmfrei-bis-3.de/prof-dr-david-martin-bei-sterntv/
  • RTL: www.rtl.de/cms/welt-diabetes-tag-wie-entsteht-die-zuckerkrankheit-ueberhaupt-und-was-sind-anzeichen-fuer-eine-erkrankung-5066621.html
  • ARD Film: Warmth for fever. Broadcast during prime time on 5 February 2023 https://www.ardmediathek.de/ video/doc-fischer/gesund-durch-waerme-bei-fieber-besser-heisse-statt-kalte-wickel/swr/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9hZXgvbzE4MDAwMzU
  • Cinema film ‘Eine andere Zukunft’ (A Different Future) www.eine-andere-zukunft.com
  • Cinema film ‘A Different Freedom’ https://vimeo.com/596110790

National AWMF guidelines:

Martin's award-winning research into skeletal age determination using artificial intelligence, on which he also wrote his postdoctoral thesis, became internationally known as BoneXpert and is widely used internationally as a model for a translational start-up.

Screens, artificial intelligence and robotics – a lecture by David Martin | 2026

Screens, artificial intelligence and robotics: How can we prepare our children for the future? A lecture by David Martin at the Rudolf Steiner House in Frankfurt am Main on 28 January 2026. Click here to access the transcript and video

And in view of this development, as a paediatrician first and foremost, but also simply as a human being, I ask myself what we need to do now for our children to ensure that in 20, 30, 40 years' time we don't have to say to ourselves that we missed something. […]

And so I ask myself, where do I have a slight feeling today that something is wrong, which perhaps the next generations will perceive as a glaring problem? And so I began to look into digitalisation, and I will talk a little bit about that later.


Sources

  1. David D Martin Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.; Paediatrics, Paediatric Endocrinology, Diabetology, Oncology and Haematology Full Professor and Chair of Medical Theory at Witten/Herdecke University - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Martin-118
  2. Professor David Martin – Eurocam - https://cam-amr-conference.eu/speakers/prof-dr-david-martin
  3. Prof. Dr. David Martin | Research Conference on TCIH Strategies for Infections and AMR Reduction - b2match - https://www.b2match.com/e/research-on-tcih-strategies/participants/2306826
  4. David Martin, MD, PhD - International Congress for Integrative Health & Medicine - DAMiD - https://icihm.damid.de/en/speakers/90-david-martin-md.html
  5. Prof. Dr. med. David Martin - Witten/Herdecke University - https://www.uni-wh.de/en/contact-person/david-martin
  6. Prof. Dr. David Martin | Author | Institute of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten ... - https://sciprofiles.com/profile/1301485

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