Martin is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. He has 30 years of experience in healthcare technology leadership, academia, innovation, strategy, and governance. Martin provided the opening “endless possibilities” address for the inaugural EMHIC summit and remains a proud supporter of EMHIC’s growth into a globally respected organisation.
Martin has a longstanding interest in providing digital mental health services to isolated, confined, underserved and extreme environments.
He helped lead the development of New Zealand’s first Telepsychiatry service and was a Clinical Advisor for the NZ National Depression Initiative integrated digital services platform and e-learning Journal. He was the establishment Clinic Director for the NZ National Institute of Health Innovation, and one of the first and longest-serving District Health Board Clinical Directors of Information Services. He helped establish and previously chaired the foundational health information systems cybersecurity forum for the NZ Northern Region.
In addition to his clinical qualifications, he holds both a Master’s degree and a Doctorate of Business Administration, both of which had a technology innovation and implementation focus. His interest in Digital Health encompasses a range of current and emergent domains including AI enhanced clinical assessment and formulation, digital threat detection and guardians, blended reality and consciousness, mind cybersecurity and the therapeutic revision of memory and narrative (TROMAN).
He has a particular clinical interest in trauma and sleep (especially nightmares and insomnia), cyber-psychiatry and cognitive risk intelligence and security (CRIAS). He is currently completing a further Doctorate (DHSc.) at Auckland University of Technology focusing on sleep, AI and suicide prevention.