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, The Atlantic, The New York Times and other publications.

Career

Marcus is a general internist and a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. 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, FL.

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. I

Selected academic publications

• 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

In 2009 she was awarded an American Cancer Society Cancer Control Career Development Award for Primary Care Physicians and a grant from the Ford Foundation. In 2013, she was named one of ten internists that physicians should follow on Twitter by Medical Economics.