Martha Welman (1979) completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Irvine and received her MD from the University of California, San Francisco in 1987. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. For the past 22 years Marti has practiced at Neighborhood Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Northern Virginia, where she has served as Medical Director since 2016, serving over 32,000 patients annually, the vast majority of whom are poor and/or uninsured. Most recently, Dr. Welman played a critical role in her organization’s COVID-19 response, personally acknowledged after a visit by President Joe Biden in spring of 2021.
