ProfessorPeter Martin

Peter Martin: Short Communication Bio 2018.

MB BCh BAO, MMed, FAChPM

Professor of Clinical Communication & End-of-Life Care, Deakin University School of Medicine.

Director, Centre for Organisational Change in Person-Centred Healthcare (OCPH), Deakin University, Faculty of Health.

Palliative Medicine Physician @ Barwon Health.


Peter has been involved with communication skills training for 30+ years and has been a clinician for over 35 years. His other clinical interest is cancer cachexia. He has taught communication skills with Cambridge, Monash, Melbourne and Deakin medical schools. He has taught at numerous postgraduate courses with a variety of health professional disciplines nationally over the last 15+ years.

Peter has trained approximately 5000 health professionals over the last 5 years alone.

Since becoming the Director of OCPH he has developed and run numerous 1,2 or 3-day courses on healthcare communication including numerous train-the-trainer courses. The OCPH’s most recent intervention is an organisational level intervention to drive person-centred healthcare communication called Your Thoughts Matter.



https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-martin-b55a102a/

@petermartinsept (Twitter handle)

@OCPHDeakin