Martin Freeman, M.D.

Martin L. Freeman, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and has an active Gastroenterology practice at Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota Hospitals in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Dr. Freeman graduated from medical school from Columbia University, New York, New York, and completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Minnesota. 

Dr. Freeman’s current practice involves ERCP and the management of complex pancreatic and biliary disease.  He is actively involved in running an advanced endoscopy training program, and is co-director of the Minnesota Pancreas and Liver Center.  His research interests include various aspects of ERCP, most notably ERCP complications on which he conducted a multicenter study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1996.   Dr. Freeman has also worked actively in the areas of pancreatic stent placement for prevention of post-ERCP pancreatitis, optimal strategies for stenting hilar malignant obstruction, treatment of Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction, endoscopic therapy of pancreatitis and pancreatic stones, and endoscopic therapy of gastrointestinal bleeding.