Toni Martin

Toni Martin is a general internist and writer. Currently, she serves at the Social Security Administration as a medical consultant for Region 9 and practices at the Berkeley Primary Care Clinic. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and has practiced as a primary care doctor in private practice and with the Permanente Medical Group in Oakland, as a hospitalist at Summit Hospital in Oakland, as an urgent care doctor at the Berkeley Primary Care Clinic, and as a regional medical consultant in the disability program at Social Security.

She earned a Geology degree at Harvard before completing medical school at UCSF. After a residency in Internal Medicine at the UCSF Hospitals, she entered private practice in Oakland, where she was the physician chief of Health Education at Kaiser Oakland.  She has taught at UCSF as a clinical professor.

In 2008, she published When the Personal was Political: Five Women Doctors Look Back, a social history of the wave of women who entered medical school after Title IX passed in 1972. This book was partially written during a residency at the Mesa Refuge. Toni is also an accomplished fiction writer. In 2013, she was a finalist for the Microfiction award, received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train and won the AROHO Orlando Fall Fiction Prize. Her medical essays have appeared in the Easy Bay Express, Hippocrates, Health Affairs and The Threepenny Review.