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Imagen de la Dra. Marina Martínez, psicóloga, especialista de Medicina Paliativa de la Clínica Universidad de Navarra. Dedicación preferencial a los pacientes oncológicos en cualquier estadio de su enfermedad, también pacientes de otras patologías con enfermedad avanzada.

Dr. Marina Martínez

Psychologist.
Primary focus on oncology patients at any stage of their illness, as well as patients with other conditions with advanced disease.

Works at: Navarre headquarters
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Professional career

Degree (1994) and PhD (2006) in Psychology, University of Deusto.

Specialist in Palliative Care, University of Deusto (1998).

Master’s Degree in Humanisation of Medicine, University of Geneva (Switzerland) and University of Insubria (Italy), 2005.

Training in Palliative Care in Intensive Care at the Regional Hospital of Lugano (Switzerland), 1993.

Training in Palliative Care at Grey Nuns University Hospital, Edmonton, Canada, in 1999, and with the Palliative Medicine team at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA, in 2000.

She previously worked with the Palliative Medicine team at the Catalan Institute of Oncology and participated in the creation of the Palliative Medicine Service at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra in 2003.

RESEARCH AREAS

  • Reviewer for the journal Medicina Paliativa and occasionally for the journal Psychooncology.
  • Member and collaborator of the ATLANTES research group and the IDISNA group.
  • She has collaborated on more than 10 research projects, serving as principal investigator in two of them. She currently collaborates on an FIS project on the patient dignity question.

AREAS OF INTEREST

  • Study of the psychological aspects of the patient with cancer.
  • Study of patient dignity, following the model of the Canadian psychiatrist H. Chochinov, with whom she trained in the USA and Canada.
  • She coordinates teaching on communication skills for the integrated curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Navarra.

Activity

In teaching

  • Assistant Professor (PhD). She teaches a compulsory subject in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Navarra (Pain Psychology, Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care).
  • An elective subject in the Faculty of Medicine (Clinical Communication). She delivers workshops and sessions on communication and aspects related to the emotional impact of illness on patients and families in the Faculties of Medicine, Nursing, Psychology and Theology at the University of Navarra. She also teaches on different national-level master’s programmes. 

In research

  • She has more than 25 published articles, 16 of them in international journals, as well as 9 book chapters.
  • She regularly participates in national and international conferences in psycho-oncology or Palliative Medicine, with more than 35 oral or poster communications and 15 plenary lectures.