Heather Duran Martin

• PhD Health Services Administration: Concentration in Health Information Systems
• MSBA: Concentration in Finance
• BSBA: Concentration in Economics

• health information systems
• opioid use disorder
• heath care quality improvement
• finance

Heather D. Martin, PhD, MSBA is a health services researcher and educator best known for her work around prescription drug monitoring programs and opioid use disorder. Ms. Martin was the Inaugural Learning Health System Fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) School of Medicine where she helped to document and dissemination their Clinical Practice Transformation group’s quality improvement methodology and emergency department (ED) redesign. While also a student at UAB, she was the project lead and main content creator of ALAHOPE, an award winning, interprofessional curriculum around preventing and treating substance use disorder. She also served as the HIMSS Alabama Chapter’s Student Liaison for 3 years supporting professional development for Alabama’s health information students along with chairing the UAB PhD Student Professional Development Committee. Ms. Martin is also a 2020 National HIMSS Student Case Competition winner and was selected as a HIMSS inaugural Emerging Healthcare Leader in 2022. Prior to her work in healthcare, she worked domestically and internationally for 10 years in financial information systems on implementation, support, and enhancements along with obtaining experience in risk management in banking, analyzing big data for financial and risk enterprise reporting. She also served on Protective Life's Financial Modernization Program, the company's largest initiative ever taken, and she and her colleagues received an award for this work.