Martha Brown Menard, PhD, CMT is a veteran massage therapist, health care research scientist, and educator. She is the author of Making Sense of Research, now in its second edition.

A former vice president for operations and trustee at the Massage Therapy Foundation, she is currently the principal of Menard Consulting in Charlottesville, Virginia, an applied research firm providing research design, program evaluation, and data analytic services to massage schools and universities such as the University of Virginia and Georgetown University Medical Center, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and individuals.

She has written successful grant proposals for both research and community service projects that have been funded by the NIH, the Massage Therapy Foundation, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.