Marti Balaam

Marti is an educationalist, social scientist and nurse who has worked in health care education since 1999. She is director of Professionalism within undergraduate medicine, senior lecturer in Medical Education and senior lecturer in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh.  

She is also co-chair of the UK Council for Educators of Medical Professionalism and co-director and partnership lead for compassionate engagement within professional communities for the University of Edinburgh Global Compassion Initiative. The Global Compassion Initiative's purpose is to enable and embed the evidence and practice of compassion within the University, in Scotland and across and the world. In this role, she works with global partners to develop programmes of work, share new strategies on compassionate engagement and learn from global and local experiences of how other communities practice compassion.  

She is also the founding director of the Compassion Salon, which is creating a community around new and established authors and poets whose work relates to compassion and wellbeing.