Skip to main content

Pablo
Martinez Amezcua

Assistant Professor

Contact Info

Experiences & Accomplishments
Education
PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2021
MHS
Johns Hopkins Univesity
2017
MD
National Autonomous University of Mexico
2015
Overview

Pablo's research focuses on aging, hearing loss, physical function and activity, and cardiovascular disease. Pablo is passionate about teaching epidemiology and is committed to the department's teaching mission.

Honors & Awards

2022 EPI Early Carrer Travel Award, American Heart Association
2020 Dr. and Mrs. Roscoe M Moore Jr Scholarship, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
2018 Robert Dyar Memorial Scholarship, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
2018 Leon Gordis Teaching Fellowship in Professional Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University

Select Publications

Here is a list of selected publications:

  • Martinez-Amezcua, P., Powell, D., Kuo, P. L., Reed, N. S., Sullivan, K. J., Palta, P., Szklo, M., Sharrett, R., Schrack, J. A., Lin, F. R., & Deal, J. A. (2021). Association of Age-Related Hearing Impairment With Physical Functioning Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in the US. JAMA network open, 4(6), e2113742. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.13742

  • Martinez-Amezcua, P., Dooley, E. E., Reed, N. S., Powell, D., Hornikel, B., Golub, J. S., Pettee Gabriel, K., & Palta, P. (2022). Association of Hearing Impairment and 24-Hour Total Movement Activity in a Representative Sample of US Adults. JAMA network open, 5(3), e222983. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.2983

  • Araiza-Garaygordobil, D., Gopar-Nieto, R., Martinez-Amezcua, P., Cabello-López, A., Alanis-Estrada, G., Luna-Herbert, A., González-Pacheco, H., Paredes-Paucar, C. P., Sierra-Lara, M. D., Briseño-De la Cruz, J. L., Rodriguez-Zanella, H., Martinez-Rios, M. A., & Arias-Mendoza, A. (2020). A randomized controlled trial of lung ultrasound-guided therapy in heart failure (CLUSTER-HF study). American heart journal, 227, 31–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2020.06.003

  • Martinez-Amezcua, P., Garcia Morales, E., Gabriel, K. P., Dooley, E. E., Hornikel, B., Coresh, J., Lin, F. R., Pankow, J. S., Sharrett, A. R., Schrack, J. A., Sullivan, K. J., Reed, N., Deal, J. A., & Palta, P. (2022). The Association Between Midlife Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Hearing Loss in Late-life in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, glac194. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glac194

  • Martinez-Amezcua, P., Simonsick, E. M., Wanigatunga, A. A., Urbanek, J. K., Chiles Shaffer, N., Ferrucci, L., & Schrack, J. A. (2019). Association Between Adiposity and Perceived Physical Fatigability in Mid- to Late Life. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 27(7), 1177–1183. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22500

  • Assi S, Twardzik E, Deal JA, Martin Ginis K, Palta P, Schrack JA, Reed NS, Martinez-Amezcua P. Hearing loss and physical activity among older adults in the US. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2023 Aug 1:glad186. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glad186. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37527509.