For more than 20 years Martins was an assistant professor at the
Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon, held the position of director of "External Affairs and Market Access" at
MSD Portugal between 2006 and 2014 and also directed the center for
Pharmacoepidemiology Studies of the National Association of Pharmacy between 1994 and 2006. Between 1989 and 1992 she was
general secretary of the
Order of Pharmacists. She was President of the Board of the Regional General Assembly of the
South and
Autonomous Regions of the Order of Pharmacists between 2009 and 2015. Between 2016 and the beginning of 2022, she held the position of
President of the Order of Pharmacists, presided over the Institute of Evidence-Based Health and coordinated the
Pharmacovigilance Center of
Lisbon,
Setúbal and
Santarém of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon for several years. Between December 2022 and January 2024 she was Director of the
Hospital de Santa Maria, in
Lisbon. ==Political career==