Erin Marcus

Erin N. Marcus, M.D., M.P.H is an 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

Marcus is a general internist and an associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.[4][5]

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. In 2013, Marcus was serving at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami, as the associate medical director of the Institute for Women's Health.[6]

Selected academic publications
  • Michels, S., Rosenfeld, P. J., Puliafito, C. A., Marcus, E. N., & Venkatraman, A. S. (2005). Systemic bevacizumab (Avastin) therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: twelve-week results of an uncontrolled open-label clinical study. Ophthalmology, 112(6), 1035-1047.
  • Moshfeghi, A. A., Rosenfeld, P. J., Puliafito, C. A., Michels, S., Marcus, E. N., Lenchus, J. D., & Venkatraman, A. S. (2006). Systemic Bevacizumab (Avastin) Therapy for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Twenty-Four–Week Results of an Uncontrolled Open-Label Clinical Study. Ophthalmology, 113(11), 2002-2011.
  • 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

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
  1. 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.
  2. "Erin N. Marcus". The Atlantic. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  3. "Erin N. Marcus". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  4. "Faculty & Staff - Institute for Women's Health". Miller School of Medicine. Archived from the original on December 12, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
  5. "Erin N. Marcus, M.D." The Huffington Post. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
  6. 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. Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin School of Law Publications. 23 (1): 83. ISSN 1058-5427. Retrieved 23 January 2017.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  7. "Communicating Results of Mammograms and Other Screening Tests (HLOL #97)". Health Literacy Out Loud. June 4, 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  8. "University of Miami / Grants / Ford Foundation". Ford Foundation. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
  9. 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.
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