Mark Earnest
Degree & Credential:
MD, PhD
Title:
Director of Interprofessional Education
Organization:
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Dr. Earnest is a Professor in the Division of General Medicine for the University of Colorado and the Co-Founder and Director of the LEADS Track Program on leadership, education , advocacy, development and scholarship which addresses the needs of the underserved and disadvantaged. Dr. Earnest is also Director of REACH, an Inter-professional education program for the Anschutz Medical Campus.
His advocacy work has focused on expanding access to care for Colorado's families, reducing conflicts of interest amongst providers, media advocacy, and promoting prevention through policy.
Dr. Earnest is a graduate of Vanderbilt Medical School , MD and received a PhD in Health and Behavioral Sciences (an interdisciplinary degree combining public health and medical anthropology and sociology) from the University of Colorado Denver.
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My Contributions
A listing of all contributions made to the National Center community.Contents
Achieving the goals of health care reform – described by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as the “Triple Aim” – will place new demands on the health care workforce. Interprofessional team-based care, quality and process improvement, and population health management are not skills that have...
Advocacy is acting for others. Health professions have a long history of acting for others and an equally long history of ethical debate and discernment about such action and its scope and limits. This entry will outline historical trends in how health professionals have understood the balance of...