Nutrition Research Advocate Award

Camilia (“Cami”) R. Martin, MD, MS, is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Chief Scientific Officer of the Charles H. Hood Foundation. She is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in neonatal nutrition and metabolism, whose work has shaped scientific understanding and clinical practice in the care of extremely preterm infants.

Her research program spans basic, translational, and clinical investigation, with a unifying focus on how early nutritional exposures influence organ development, growth trajectories, and lifelong health. Dr. Martin’s scholarly contributions include more than 100 publications, four books, 18 book chapters, and over 180 invited national and international presentations, shaping contemporary neonatal nutritional guidelines and standards of care. Dr. Martin has led and participated as Principal Investigator on multicenter cohort studies and clinical trials examining neonatal nutrition, lipid metabolism, growth, and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Her translational research program integrates complementary animal models and human-derived systems to interrogate fatty acids and lipid-derived mediators in organogenesis. She currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator on multiple prospective maternal–infant cohort studies of term and preterm infants funded by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and the NICHD. Dr. Martin has played a central role in building a durable scientific infrastructure. She founded the Neonatal Nutrition Collaborative, a multisite initiative capturing comprehensive nutrition data in infants born before 32 weeks’ gestation and is co-Founder and co-Director of the Perinatal Intergenerational Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, a longitudinal cohort of maternal-infant dyads with integrated clinical data and biospecimen collection. In 2025, she co-founded the Society for Neonatal Nutrition and Lifelong Health to convene multidisciplinary experts and accelerate evidence-based advances in neonatal nutrition.