Cheyenne "Darlene" Martin, PhD, RN, FAANProfessor
Rebecca and Edwin Gale Professor
Department of SON Graduate Studies
School of Nursing
2022 Lifetime Achievement Award and Honorary Member
Dr. Cheyenne Martin is the Rebecca and Edwin Gale Distinguished Professor of Ethics at the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and School of Nursing, and an Associate Faculty at the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities,
Galveston, Texas. She was previously a faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Martin received her PhD in Medical Ethics and Public Policy from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston. She was among the first nursing faculty
in the U.S to receive the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Fellowship in Bio-ethics, a program developed by the Kennedy and Shriver families in conjunction with Georgetown and Harvard universities to prepare medical and nursing faculty in the newly emerging
field/of medical ethics. Dr. Martin later served as a member of the Kennedy Fellow Selection committee chaired by Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She is an elected Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
During the past several decades, Dr. Martin has directed a series of international studies which examined nurses' and physicians' participation in resistance activities in France, Poland, Italy, Belgium and other occupied countries during the Nazi era.
This resistance research has been funded by the NIH grant from the National Library of Medicine, as well as grants from the Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund, the Rebecca Sealy Foundation, and the Rebecca and Edwin Gale Professorship. She is currently
expanding the research to examine roles and experiences of physicians and nurses in the current conflict in Ukraine.
Dr. Martin has presented numerous research-based papers addressing roles of nurses and physicians in resistance activities during the Nazi era and other genocides to national international audiences. She is a former member of the Texas Commission and
the Holocaust and Genocide Ethics Committee and a long-term member of the International Scholars Conference on the Holocaust. She is currently developing a photo exhibit entitled Medical Warriors in Resistance in France during the Nazi Era. She has
also been actively involved as a Visiting Scholar at numerous Holocaust educational programs for the university faculty and high-school teachers. She was the recipient of a UTMB Living Legend Award in 2022.