Wayne Martin received his MD degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton and completed his specialty training in Neurology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Following his neurology residency, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in PET scanning at Washington University in St. Louis. He returned to the University of Alberta in 1990 as a Professor in the Dept. of Medicine (Neurology), having previously held a faculty position in Neurology as Assistant, then Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia.

Currently, he is the Director of the Movement Disorders Program, based at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Edmonton, a program that is recognized as a Centre of Excellence by the National Parkinson Foundation. In addition to being involved in clinical research involving patients with movement disorders, he is an active investigator in the Peter S. Allen MR Research Centre. He has held research support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, NIH, various local, national, and international disease-specific funding agencies, and from industry. He has been on the editorial board of Movement Disorders.

His research interests include magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy in Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, functional imaging with PET in these disorders, and studies of gait and balance in Parkinson’s disease.