Biography
Dr. Mark H. Ebell is a graduate of Kalamazoo College and the University of Michigan Medical School, where he also trained in Family Medicine and has a degree from their School of Public Health. As of 2023 he is a retired Professor from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia, and is currently a Professor of Family Medicine at Michigan State University. Dr. Ebell was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Family Practice and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Essential Evidence Plus and Deputy Editor of the American Family Physician journal. He is author of over 600 peer-reviewed publications and is author or editor of eight books, with a focus on evidence-based practice, screening, respiratory infections, cancer screening, and clinical decision-making. Dr. Ebell was a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar and has won numerous awards for his research including ‚Distinguished Paper‚ three times from the North American Primary Care Research Group. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of G√∂ttingen, the University of Washington, the University of W√ºrzburg, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Florida, and the University of Missouri. Dr. Ebell served on the United States Preventive Services Task Force from 2012 to 2015 and served as a consultant to the Task Force from 2016 to 2020. In 2019 he was Fulbright Scholar at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, and in 2024 won the STFM Curtis Hames Award for lifetime achievement in research.
Education
M.S., College of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1994
M.D., , University of Michigan, 1983
B.A., , Kalamazoo College, 1979
Employment
Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 2024 -
Professor, University of Georgia, Athens, 2007 - 2023
Publications
The quality of patient decision aids for lung cancer screening: Results from an environmental scan Cancer (2025)
Development and External Validation of the FluScoreVax Risk Score for Influenza That Incorporates Vaccine Status The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (2025)
Association of C-reactive protein with cause, duration and severity of lower respiratory infections in primary care: a prospective cohort study BMJ Open Respiratory Research (2025)
Corticosteroids, Antitussives, and Inhalers for Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in US Primary Care: A Prospective Cohort Study Journal of General Internal Medicine (2025)
Top 20 Research Studies of 2024 for Primary Care Physicians. American family physician (2025)
The association between physician salary and competitiveness of that specialty in the match: money still matters Family Practice (2025)
The Evolution of Evidence-Based Medicine in American Family Physician. American family physician (2025)
Evidence Considerations for Recent USPSTF Recommendations. American family physician (2025)
How likely is it that a virus or bacteria is causing a patient's symptoms? A new approach to interpret the outcome from multi-pathogen PCR. Infectious diseases (London, England) (2025)
Clinical Prediction Rules in Remote Consultation (2025)
Performance of a score to characterise adequate contact among the social network of persons with TB. IJTLD open (2024)
Acute cough in outpatients: what causes it, how long does it last, and how severe is it for different viruses and bacteria? Clinical Microbiology and Infection (2024)
PREVENT Equations for Assessing Cardiovascular Risk. American family physician (2024)
Clinical Testing Guidance for Coccidioidomycosis, Histoplasmosis, and Blastomycosis in Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia for Primary and Urgent Care Providers Clinical Infectious Diseases (2024)
Identifying the Best Initial Oral Antibiotics for Adults with Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Network Meta-Analysis Journal of General Internal Medicine (2024)
Prospective external validation of the FluScore risk score for influenza in outpatients Family Practice (2024)
Prospective Validation of a Simple Risk Score to Predict Hospitalization during the Omicron Phase of COVID-19 The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (2024)
Acute Uncomplicated UTIs in Adults: Rapid Evidence Review. American family physician (2024)
Clinically Important Benefits and Harms of Monoclonal Antibodies Targeting Amyloid for the Treatment of Alzheimer Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Annals of family medicine (2024)
Use of Patient-Reported Symptom Data in Clinical Decision Rules for Predicting Influenza in a Telemedicine Setting The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (2023)
Best management of patients with an acute sore throat is still best management for these patients Infectious Diseases (2023)
Interventions to increase colorectal cancer screening adherence in low-income settings within the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis Preventive Medicine (2023)
Development and internal validation of risk scores to diagnose infectious mononucleosis among college students Family Practice (2023)
Derivation and validation of clinical prediction rules for diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis: a prospective cohort study BMJ Open (2023)
Evidence reversals in primary care research: a study of randomized controlled trials Family Practice (2022)
Geographical variation of emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in older adults in Ireland 2012–2016 BMJ Open (2021)
Novel approach to meta-analysis of tests and clinical prediction rules with three or more risk categories BMJ Open (2021)
Associations Between Relative Viral Load at Diagnosis and Influenza A Symptoms and Recovery Open Forum Infectious Diseases (2020)
A comparison of contemporary versus older studies of aspirin for primary prevention Family Practice (2020)
A Cluster of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infections Indicating Person-to-Person Transmission Among Casual Contacts From Social Gatherings: An Outbreak Case-Contact Investigation Open Forum Infectious Diseases (2020)
Accuracy of Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Adult Community‐acquired Pneumonia: A Meta‐analysis Academic Emergency Medicine (2020)
Predicting the probability of survival with mild or moderate neurological dysfunction after in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest: The GO-FAR 2 score Resuscitation (2020)
Prearrest prediction of favourable neurological survival following in-hospital cardiac arrest: The Prediction of outcome for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (PIHCA) score Resuscitation (2019)
Meta-analysis of the accuracy of termination of resuscitation rules for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest Emergency Medicine Journal (2019)
Prospective validation of the Good Outcome Following Attempted Resuscitation (GO-FAR) score for in-hospital cardiac arrest prognosis Resuscitation (2019)
Cancer screening recommendations: an international comparison of high income countries Public Health Reviews (2018)
Predicting neurologically intact survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest-external validation of the Good Outcome Following Attempted Resuscitation score Resuscitation (2018)