Research & writing

Peer reviewed and other publications

2025

Alvarez, A., & Martinek, N.N. (2025). Defusion: A Novel Interprofessional Framework for Emotional Recovery in Emergency Teams. (submitted).

Legha, R. K., & Martinek, N. N. (2022). White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse. Medical Humanities. Full access here.
Man Returns His Fiancée's Wedding Dress To Respect His Mom's "Vision", Gets Screamed At. (Bored Panda, 2022).
Woman Asks If She Was Wrong To Make Boyfriend's Mom Cry After She Gave Her Son A Paternity Gift. (Bored Panda, 2022).

Burnout, Moral Injury, Vicarious Trauma, PTSD and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Year in Review. SAEM Online. (2021).
Kanaris, C. Moral distress in the intensive care unit during the pandemic: the burden of dying alone. Intensive Care Med 47, 141–143 (2021).
Designed the original Compassion Aid prototype in collaboration with Dr. Khurram Jahangir.

Merner, B., Hill, S., Colombo, C., Xafis, V., Gaulden, C. M., Graham‐Wisener, L., Lowe, D., Walsh, L., Biggar, S., Bourke, N., Chmielewski, R., Gill, M., Martin, F., Martinek, N., McKinlay, L., Menzies, D., Mussared, A., Refahi, N., Smith, L., Sonawane, R., … Wardrope, C. (2019). Consumers and health providers working in partnership for the promotion of person‐centred health services: a co‐produced qualitative evidence synthesis. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019 (2), CD013274.
Chronic Disease Patients with 'Empathetic' PCPs Have Lower Risk of Mortality. (2019).
These are the Most Common Causes of Burnout, Research Finds — Do You Agree? (2019).
Your Complete Guide to Beginning to Meditate as a Healthcare Professional. (2019).
Worried About the Mental Health of a Fellow HCP? 7 Ways to Take Action. (2019).

Health care professionals need balance - Medpage Today - Kevin MD's Blog (2017).
Burnout Culture and Disconnected Medicine. (2017). Gathering of Kindness Blog.
What to do when You're under Psychic Attack. (2017). - The Elephant Journal.

Burgess, M., Tai, G., Martinek, N., Menezes, M., & Delatycki, M. (2015). AB117. An exploration of Australasian genetic counsellors' attitudes towards compassion fatigue, mindfulness and genetic counselling. Annals of Translational Medicine, 3 (Suppl 2).

Martinek, N., Zou, R., Berg, M., Sodek, J., & Ringuette, M. (2002). Evolutionary conservation and association of SPARC with the basal lamina in Drosophila. Development genes and evolution, 212(3), 124-133.
Doctoral Thesis if you're really bored or love connective tissue biology. (2005).