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Pediatric emergency care physician
Point-of-care ultrasound enthusiast and dog lover
Dr. Margaret Lin-Martore is a pediatric emergency care doctor with expertise in point-of-care ultrasound, a portable imaging tool for both diagnosis and treatment. In addition to UCSF, she cares for patients at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
Lin-Martore's research focuses on point-of-care ultrasound and its use in the pediatric emergency room, as well as how best to teach and learn its use. She is also interested in health literacy and patient-doctor communication in the emergency department, and has published articles on these subjects.
Lin-Martore earned her medical degree at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She completed a residency in emergency medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, where she also completed an emergency ultrasound fellowship. She later completed a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, also an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
Lin-Martore is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and P2 Network (a community of pediatric emergency doctors who specialize in point-of-care ultrasound). She serves as co-director of UCSF's fellowship program in pediatric emergency ultrasound.
American Board of Emergency Medicine, Focused Practice in Advanced Emergency Medicine, 2022
American Board of Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2019
American Board of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine, 2015
Mount Auburn Hospital, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2017
Boston Children's Hosp : Pediatric Cardiology, 2017
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 2015
Harvard Medical School, Emergency Medicine, 2015
Harvard Medical School, Emergency Medicine, 2014
Harvard Medical School, Emergency Medicine, 2012
Washington University School of Medicine, 2011
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