Erin Marcus
Erin N. Marcus is an American internal medicine doctor who writes on public health and health disparity issues for The Washington Post,[1] The Atlantic,[2] The New York Times,[3] and other publications.
Career
[edit]Marcus is a general internist and a professor of clinical medicine at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami.[4][5] Much of her non-academic writing focuses on how different public policies affect the diverse patients she sees as a primary care physician in Miami.
Marcus is a former American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Fellow and worked as a newspaper reporter before receiving her medical degree.[citation needed] I[6]
Selected academic publications
[edit]- Marcus, EN, Yepes, M, Dietz, N. Perception of Breast Density Information Among Women in Miami, FL: a Qualitative Study. Journal of Cancer Education 2020. (), 1–8. DOI: 10.1007/s13187-020-01778-2. Online First: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13187-020-01778-2.
- Allespach H, Marcus EN, Bosire KM. Sailing on the ‘7 Cs’: teaching junior doctors how to redirect patients during difficult consultations in primary care. Education for Primary Care. 2018 Jan. 29:1. 46–48. DOI: 10.1080/14739879.2017.1312554. PMID 28395646
- Allespach, H., Marcus, EN. The Rule of Six 2s’: teaching learners simple strategies for structuring an outpatient adult primary care follow-up visit in the 21st century. Postgraduate Medical Journal 2016 August. 629–630. Doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2016-134175. PMID 27555607.
- Marcus, EN, Yepes M. "Not just a radiologic term: The conundrum of explaining breast density to patients." Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 12(2013): 761–765. PMID 24307159.
- Marcus, E. N. (2006). The silent epidemic—the health effects of illiteracy. New England Journal of Medicine, 355(4), 339–341.
- Tamariz, Leonardo, Ana Palacio, Mauricio Robert, and Erin N. Marcus. "Improving the informed consent process for research subjects with low literacy: a systematic review." Journal of General Internal Medicine 28, no. 1 (2013): 121–126.
- Marcus, E. N. (2016). Muslim Women's Preferences in the Medical Setting: How Might They Contribute to Disparities in Health Outcomes?. Journal of Women's Health, 25(6), 561–562.
Honors and awards
[edit]In 2009, she was awarded an American Cancer Society Cancer Control Career Development Award for Primary Care Physicians[7] and a grant from the Ford Foundation.[8]
In 2013, she was named one of ten internists that physicians should follow on Twitter by Medical Economics.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Marcus, Erin N. (March 24, 2014). "A common problem few women want to talk about: Fibroids cause more than just pain". Washington Post. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Erin N. Marcus". The Atlantic. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Erin N. Marcus". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Faculty & Staff - Institute for Women's Health". Miller School of Medicine. Archived from the original on December 12, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
- ^ "Erin N. Marcus, M.D." The Huffington Post. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
- ^ Buchanan, Maggie Jo (Fall 2013). "Fighting Domestic Violence Through Insurance: What The Affordable Care Act Does And Can Do For Survivors". Texas Journal of Women and the Law. 23 (1). Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin School of Law Publications: 83. ISSN 1058-5427. Retrieved 23 January 2017. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
- ^ "Communicating Results of Mammograms and Other Screening Tests (HLOL #97)". Health Literacy Out Loud. June 4, 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "University of Miami / Grants / Ford Foundation". Ford Foundation. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
- ^ Ritchie, Alison (June 25, 2013). "10 internists that physicians should follow on Twitter". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
