Bridget A. Martell, MD, MA Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine 333 Cedar Street P. O. Box 208025 New Haven, CT 06520 Phone: 203-401-0208 Fax: 203-401-0339 e-mail: bridget.martell@yale.edu

Training

B.S., Cornell University
M.A. Biochemistry, Boston University
M.D., Chicago Medical School
Residency, Categorical Internal Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Chief Resident, Categorical Internal Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Certification, Addiction Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Teaching Activities

As part of the pre-clinical clerkship curriculum, I teach history-taking and physical examination skills to first and second year medical students at Yale University School of Medicine. As an Addiction Medicine specialist, I lecture housestaff on both inpatient and outpatient management of medical complications of drug abuse. I am currently developing a curriculum for an elective during the Ambulatory Block rotation for internal medicine residents to experience clinical investigation in a pharmaceutical industry setting.

Research Activities

As Associate Director of the New Haven Clinical Research Unit of Pfizer Global Research and Development, Inc., I pursue my research interests as a clinical trialist conducting Phase I clinical trials that investigate novel pharmaceuticals.

Selected Recent Publications

Martell BA, O’Connor PG, Kerns RD, Becker WC, Morales KH, Kosten TR, and Fiellin DA. Opioid treatment for chronic back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of their prevalence, efficacy and association with addiction. Ann Intern Med. 2007; 146:116-127.

Poling, J. Oliveto, A., Petry, N., Sofuoglu, M., Gonsai, K., Gonzalez, G., Martell, B ., & Kosten, T.R. Six-month trial of Bupropion with Contingency Management for Cocaine Dependence in a Methadone-Maintained Population. Archives of General Psychiatry. 2005. (in press).

Martell BA, Mitchell E, Poling J, Gonsai K, and Kosten TR. Vaccine Pharmacotherapy for the Treatment of Cocaine Dependence. Biol Psych. 2005;58:158-164.

Martell BA, Arnsten JH, Krantz, MJ, and Gourevitch MN. The impact of methadone treatment on cardiac repolarization and conduction in opioid users. Am. J. Cardiol. April 2005; 95(7):915-918.