Eugene Gooden Martin – Vice President
Eugene Gooden Martin, Ph.D. is a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick. He currently serves as the Co-Director of more than a hundred laboratories offering rapid HIV testing in the State of New Jersey.
Graduating with a degree in History and Government from St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY) in 1969, Gene received a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Physiology from New York Medical College in 1981. After spending two years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School with joint appointments in the Departments of Pathology and Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shriners Burns Institute, he joined the Department of Pathology at Rutgers Medical School (now renamed UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) in 1983 where he served as the Director of the Serology Laboratory, as the Chief of the Division of Informatics and as the departmental Vice-Chairman for 17 years. In addition, along with Dr. Karel Raska and Robert L. Trelstad, MD he co-founded the University Diagnostic Laboratories, a federation of clinical laboratories within the medical school. Over those years, he was the recipient of grants in two major domains: medical informatics and laboratory approaches to infectious disease.
He currently directs the Physician Assistant program in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and is actively involved in the education of medical students, PA students and residents at the nation’s largest allied health university. In addition to his role in the SVU, Gene has served as the Secretary to the Board of the New Jersey Society of Blood Bank Professionals.
Dr. Martin was a participant in the 2006 SVU Congress in Ceské Budejovice and the 2008 SVU World Congress in Ruzomberok, Slovakia. At those meetings he has presented discussions of rapid HIV testing in the United States public health efforts. Gene has published several papers with Karel F. Raska, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. and Jana Raskova, M.D. on topics ranging from the immunology of HIV disease to the role of case-based learning in medical education.
He is married and resides in East Brunswick, NJ with his wife Nancy. Together, they have five children: two sons and three daughters. Gene is an avid skier and hiker.