Martin J. Sullivan, M.D.

Education

B.A., DePauw University, Indiana, 1976
M.D., Ohio State University, Ohio, 1980

Residency

Internal Medicine, Ohio State Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

Fellowship

Cardiology Research, Ohio State Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Board Certifications

American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Cardiovascular Disease

Hospital Affiliations/Admitting Privileges

Institute for Healing in Society and Medicine

Dr. Sullivan is the President and Executive Director of the Institute for Healing in Society and Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

He received his bachelor of arts from DePauw University in Indiana and his medical degree from Ohio State University in Columbus. Continuing his postdoctoral studies at Ohio State University, he served his residency in medicine and research fellowship in cardiology, and then trained as a cardiology fellow at Duke University Medical Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. During his twenty-year tenure at Duke, Dr. Sullivan served in various prestigious administrative and academic positions, including Professor of Medicine, Director of the Human Performance Laboratory, Co-Director of the Cardiomyopathy Clinic, and Director of the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine, which he founded. In 2002, he founded the Institute for Healing in Medicine and Society. The mission of the IHSM is to restore the healing roots of medicine to everyday practice by educating physicians on integrative medicine.

Dr. Sullivan is affiliated with numerous professional societies, including the American Heart Association, where he is a fellow on the councils of Circulation, Clinical Cardiology and Atherosclerosis. He also served as an Established Investigator for the American Heart Association from 1991-1996. He is a member of the American Federation of Clinical Research and the Physicians for Social Responsibility. He was the cofounder of the Academic Consortium of Integrative Medicine, and served as the co-chair of the Research Committee.

He received a Career Development Award for Excellence grant from the American Heart Association, with which he studied peripheral limitations to exercise in heart failure, and has been awarded millions of dollars in grant monies as the principle investigator for a variety of cardiovascular and integrative medicine studies.

Dr. Sullivan serves as a scientific manuscript reviewer for many important publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the Journal of the American Medical Association. In addition, he has had a prolific research career in academic cardiology, publishing over 70 articles and 20 book chapters.