Augusto Martinez, MD

Augusto Rafael Martinez, MD, a board-certified pediatrician since 1989, has extensive experience in international child health. He is currently a practitioner at Lifespan Physician Group Pediatric Primary Care.

Dr. Martinez’s medical career has spanned both outpatient and hospital settings in the US and the Middle East, including work at Women and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island, and Emerson Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center, both in Massachusetts. He also worked as a primary care pediatrician for Harvard/Concord Hillside Pediatrics in Massachusetts before relocating to the Middle East. He has served as a pediatric consultant to international hospitals including the Yemeni-Swedish Hospital for Maternal and Child Health in Yemen and Oasis Hospital in the United Arab Emirates.

Dr. Martinez is an assistant professor of pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, having held a similar position at the University of Taiz in Yemen. He also served as clinical instructor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Kentucky. 

He earned his medical degree at Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara in Mexico and a master’s degree in public health at Boston University. Dr. Martinez completed his internship and pediatric residency at Kosair-Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dr. Martinez has been a longtime member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Christian Medical and Dental Association.