Grace Martin

Overview

Grace Martin is a premedical gap-year fellow from Covington, Kentucky, who joined Tricoastal Narcolepsy and Sleep Disorders Center in June 2024. Her passion for neuroscience and continuous learning through research brought her to Tricoastal Narcolepsy and Sleep Disorders Center. Her goals are to experience new demographics of patients, learn to provide patients with treatment plans that improve their quality of life, and feel this positive impact on the lives she touches in the field of medicine. 

Education

Grace was named a National Merit Finalist and Kentucky Governor Scholar in high school, allowing her to attend the University of Kentucky on the Patterson Academic Scholarship. During her undergraduate career, she worked as the senior lab member in a neurophysiology research lab in the Department of Biology and gained hands-on clinical experience as a patient observation attendant. Grace also found a love for philanthropy as a volunteer at Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Bluegrass and 4Paws for Ability. She continues to be involved with two projects in a neurosurgery spine lab at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine which explore cervical spine myelopathy and traumatic spinal cord injuries. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and a minor in Mathematics. She earned Neuroscience Departmental Honors and fulfilled the requirements of the Lewis Honors College. Grace plans to attend medical school in the future.

Employment

  • Gap Year Fellow, Tricoastal Narcolepsy and Sleep Disorders Center (June 2024 – present)

  • Research Assistant, Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine (May 2023 – present)

  • Patient Observation Attendant, University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital (August 2022 – May 2023)

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky (May 2022-August 2022)

Publications

  • West AK, Xu EM, Nelson MD, Hart TR, Stricker EM, Cones AG, Martin GM, Strickland K, Lambert DL, Burman L, Zhu BH, Schneider ER. Quantitative Evaluation of Tactile Foraging Behavior in Pekin and Muscovy Ducks. Front Physiol. 2022 Jun 14;13:921657. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2022.921657. PMID: 35774281; PMCID: PMC9237358.

  • Harshit Arora, Hassan Darabi, Nathaniel Toop, Zahraa Al-Sharshahi, Grace M. Martin, Jan M. Schwab, H. Francis Farhadi. Maximal cord swelling predicts neurological recovery in patients with primarily intradural compression after acute cervical traumatic spinal cord injury. Institute: 1. Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA; 2. Department of Neurological Surgery The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Columbus, Ohio; 3. Department of Neurology and Belford Center for Spinal Cord Injury, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA *Pending Publication*

Last updated: July 2024