Martha A Hellems, MD

Martha Hellems, MD, is a board-certified General Pediatrician at UVA Health Children's. She's also a Clinical Informatician for UVA Health, which means she analyzes, implements and evaluates our information and communication systems across the health system. Dr. Hellems has held several teaching and leadership roles since joining the faculty over 20 years ago. She currently serves as the program director for the Department of Pediatrics’ Clinical Fellowship Program.

She is an Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for the health system, applying her informatics expertise to optimize the use of technology resources and the electronic health record in daily clinical practice. Dr. Hellems sees patients and teaches medical students and residents in the Birdsong Clinic in the Battle Building and in the Newborn Nursery.

Dr. Hellems was born and raised in New Jersey. Prior to attending medical school, she attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, earned an MS in Operations Research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a consultant in the D.C. area.

Dr. Hellems moved to Charlottesville in 1992 to pursue premedical coursework and graduated from the UVA School of Medicine in 1998. She completed her pediatric residency at UVA in 2001, served as pediatric chief resident and then joined the faculty in the Division of General Pediatrics in 2002. She earned a master’s degree in health evaluation sciences from UVA in 2003.

Dr. Hellems lives in the Charlottesville area with her husband and a small pack of rescue beagles.

Gender

Female

Languages

English

Age Groups Seen

Infants (0-2)
Children (2-12)
Adolescents (12-21)

Primary Education

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Residency

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Certification

American Board of Preventive Medicine (Public Health and General Preventive Medicine), American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)