Marta Patiño Rodriguez, MD, is an internal medicine physician who serves as the Associate Director of Education and Training for the NCDI Poverty Network and the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr Patiño has more than 20 years of work experience in Spain with the National Health System and in Sierra Leone with Partners In Health. Through this work she has had extensive involvement in a broad range of activities from clinical practice to clinical education, research, and program implementation across multiple health system environments.

In her role as Clinical Projects Specialist for PIH–Sierra Leone, Dr. Patiño managed several large grants including MIND-TB, a gender-sensitive tuberculosis screening project and PEN-Plus funded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she conducted the National Assessment in Emergency Care for Sierra Leone, and led development of data management and evaluation in the Emergency Department at Koidu Government Hospital.

In her role as clinical educator, Dr. Patiño has trained and mentored clinical students throughout her career as well as supervised local and visiting trainees completing their research and implementation projects in Sierra Leone. She supervised the development and implementation of the Advanced Training Program for Emergency Care in conjunction with Chicago University and was part of the training faculty for Non-Communicable Diseases at Koidu Government Hospital.

Most recently, she co-led the development and implementation of a novel Bachelor Degree Program in Internal Medicine for Clinical Officers in Sierra Leone together with the Makeni School of Clinical Sciences. In her current role at PEN-Plus, she continues to build on her prior experience as she steers organizational efforts toward ongoing curriculum development, on-site training, cross-site collaboration and standardization, and cultivation of context-relevant learning resources.