Dr. John Martin

Experienced physician clinician and executive with extensive experience in diverse areas of medicine. A vascular surgeon by training, he has held board certification in vascular surgery, general surgery and surgical critical care and received an MBA from the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins. He has served in multiple leadership roles including the Chief of Heart and Vascular Services at Anne Arundel Medical Center, President, Cardiology Associates and VP of Physician Operations for MedStar Medical Group, the largest healthcare system in the Washington Baltimore region. He assumed the role of Chief Medical Officer for Butterfly Network and Hyperfine Research in 2017, two start-up companies with transformative imaging and artificial intelligence technologies. In 2020, he transitioned to focus on Butterfly and played a role in its recent nearly $585 million SPAC merger with Longview and is leading clinical, regulatory and quality preparations for the IPO in the first quarter of 2021.


Within the MedStar Health System, he played a key role in developing a physician leadership program in conjunction with the Wharton School of business. He has authored numerous peer reviewed articles and chapters, holds several device patents, developed and sold clinical software to major medical centers across the US, participated in pivotal drug and device trials and served in an advisory capacity to multiple medical device companies. He has spoken nationally and internationally on a broad range of topics including vascular surgery, business and leadership development and the subject he is most passionate about, cardiovascular screening. He was a TEDMed Speaker in 2019. He founded the not-for-profit Heart Health Foundation and created the largest continuous free cardiovascular screening program-Dare to CARE in 1999, which now has multiple sites nationally and internationally. In Anne Arundel County Maryland alone over 65,000 have participated in the nationally acclaimed program which has transformed cardiovascular health in the community.