Dr. Jaime Martinez serves as Director of HIV Services for Adolescents and Senior Attending Physician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Cook County Children’s Hospital. He also holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Illinois.

Dr. Martinez has worked in adolescent health since 1981 and in HIV treatment since 1987. He began his work at the University of Maryland as an instructor then preceptor in the Pediatric Emergency Room. He then moved to Miami, Florida where he spent several years as Director of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Miami Children’s Hospital. In the area of HIV research, Dr. Martinez has investigated HIV/AIDS and co-morbidities in adolescents; health beliefs of the adolescent; STIs; adolescent nutrition; substance use; and adolescence and pharmacokinetics.

He has served or serves as: Chairman, Youth Advisory Committee of the AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth, and Families; Midwest Hispanic Health Network Board of Directors; Adolescent Research Agenda Committee of the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group; HIV Planning Council Member at the Cook County and City of Chicago Departments of Health; and Editor of the Adolescent Medicine Section of International Pediatrics. Dr. Martinez has been funded by the NIH as PI for the Adolescent Trails Network and the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials-Adolescent Initiative.

He also has served as a grant administrator and major author for the Gay Adolescents Program; the Chicago Adolescent HIV Network/REACH Project; and the Chicago Youth Against AIDS project. His HAB funding includes PI on the Chicago HIV Adolescent Medicine Program; Chicago HIV Risk Reduction Partnership for Youth; South Side Outreach Systems (SOS); and the PI for the Adolescent Medicine at the CORE Center.

Publications authored by Dr. Martinez address: transitioning youth into care (linking identified HIV-infected youth at outreach sites in the community to hospital based clinics and/or CHC); identifying HIV-positive youth and transitioning them into the health care system; adherence to ARV regimens in HIV-infected adolescent patients engaged in care in a comprehensive adolescent and youth adult clinic; AIDS in adolescents; and the reciprocal effects of program evaluation on service delivery for the SPNS adolescent HIV outreach and treatment programs.

Dr. Martinez holds a BS Biology Degree from Yale University; a Medical Degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; completed his Pediatric Residency at Children’s Hospital, Newark; awarded a Fellowship at the Adolescent Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine (Adolescent Prenatal Clinic, Teen Parenting Clinic, and Adolescent Rape Trauma Clinic); awarded a Fellowship at the Adolescent Medicine Research Center for the Study of Adolescence, Northwestern University Department of Psychiatry and University of Chicago, Department of Human Development. He is certified by the Diplomat of American Board of Pediatrics with a Subspeciality in Adolescent Medicine, Instructor, Pediatric Advance Life Support, and Diplomat of National Board of Medical Examiners.