Miriam Martinez, PhD

Miriam Martinez, PhD, is a bilingual, Spanish-speaking clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience in community-based health care services, university-affiliated medical schools and centers. Martinez has held an array of senior leadership positions at Mount Sinai’s department of psychiatry and behavioral health, including chief of Clinical Strategy and administrative director for the department, which included a full range of inpatient, outpatient, addiction, child, and adolescent psychiatric services.

Before returning to New York City, Martinez held clinical psychiatric administrative positions at the University of San Francisco School of Medicine, where she developed and became the first director of the Division of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital. Martinez developed and led the accreditation for a multicultural clinical psychology training program and served two terms on the APA Minority Fellowship Program Training Advisory Committee. She held the position as associate director of the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health and has experience in nonprofit administration as both an executive director and a chief program officer.

Martinez has dedicated her career to being a strong advocate for under-resourced communities working with child-serving systems, including juvenile probation and the foster care system. She has received honors from two San Francisco mayors and the director of Public Health who awarded her as a “Public Health Hero” for two decades of service to the community. Martinez has held full clinical professor faculty positions in academia at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine within two distinct departments. She has taught medical students, psychiatry residents and fellows, psychology interns and fellows, and within the UCSF Nursing School and the Department of Pediatrics.

Martinez is currently adjunct professor, Department of psychiatry, New York University, NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She completed a post-doctorate psychology fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. A native New Yorker, Puerto Rican, she received her bachelor’s degree from Hunter College, CUNY.