Dr. Andrew Ayers Martin, MD, JD, FCAP

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Get to know Pathologist Dr. Andrew Ayers, who serves patients in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

A committed pathologist, Dr. Martin is the Medical Laboratory Director of MidSouth Pathology in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The practice covers Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale, North Sunflower Medical Center in Ruleville, and Tallahatchie General Hospital in Charleston.

Graduating with his Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University in 1980, he went on to obtain his medical degree from the Emory Medical School in 1984, and completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Tulane Medical Center in 1994. Finally, he completed his fellowship in surgical pathology at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1995.

Distinguished as Medical Review Officer by the American Association of Medical Review Officers (AAMRO), the doctor is board-certified in anatomic & clinical pathology by the American Board of Pathology (ABPath). He also has special expertise in legal medicine as a Juris Doctor law review graduate of Duke Law School, admitted to practice law in California, Louisiana and the District of Columbia, having worked in the office of Risk Management at Duke Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.

Maintaining fellowship status, Dr. Martin is a Fellow of the College of American Pathology (FCAP), and Fellow of the College of Legal Medicine (FCLM). He is also an active member of the American Medical Association, the Mississippi State Medical Association, and the Mississippi Valley Six County Medical Society. 

Pathology is a branch of medicine that involves the study and diagnosis of diseases through direct gross and microscopic tissue analyses (e.g. of biopsies). Pathologists also analyze various body fluids (e.g. blood) and whole bodies (autopsies). Pathologists are physicians who specialize in the diagnosis of diseases using laboratory methods.

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