Rate My Professor Dominique Martin

Professor Dominique Martin is Professor of Health Ethics and Professionalism in the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health at Deakin University, where she leads the ethics and professionalism team. She holds an MBBS and BA from the University of Melbourne in 2003, with majors in Philosophy and English, a BA (Hons) in Philosophy in 2005, a PhD in Applied Ethics in 2011 examining markets in human biological materials, and a Graduate Certificate of University Teaching in 2014, all from the University of Melbourne. Before her appointment at Deakin as Senior Lecturer in 2016, later promoted to Professor, she was Lecturer in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne from 2012 to 2016, and Teaching Associate in Medical Ethics at Monash University.

Her academic interests center on applied ethics, bioethics, and medical ethics, particularly ethical issues in nephrology, organ and tissue donation and transplantation, procurement, use, and distribution of human biological materials such as organs, tissues, and gametes for assisted reproduction, as well as health professionalism. She has amassed over 2700 citations on Google Scholar. Notable publications include 'Prevention of Trafficking in Organs, Tissues, and Cells' (2025), 'Psychosocial Evaluation of Prospective Living Kidney Donors: An International Survey' (2025), 'Rethinking Priority for Prodonation Behaviors in Organ Allocation: Lessons From the Israeli Experience' (2024), 'Addressing Ethical Confusion in Deceased Donation and Transplantation' (2021, cited by 18), and 'A New Edition of the Declaration of Istanbul' (2019, cited by 31). Martin is a member of The Transplantation Society and International Association of Bioethics, and has served as Co-Chair of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group. She leads the International Travel for Organ Transplantation Research Collaborative and contributes to committees including the Australian Law Reform Commission's Advisory Committee on human tissue laws, influencing policy and legal reform in organ donation and transplantation.