Mark Earnest, MD

Professor, Medicine-Internal Medicine


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Medical School
  • MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (1990)
Graduate School
  • PhD, University of Colorado Denver (2001)
Undergraduate School
  • BA, Wake Forest University (NC) (1986)
Internship
  • University of Colorado (1991)
Residency
  • University of Colorado, Internal Medicine (1993)
Languages
English
Department
Medicine-Internal Medicine

Recognitions

  • Top Doctor, 5280 Magazine (2005)
  • Top Doctor, 5280 Magazine (2006)
  • Top Doctor, 5280 Magazine (2007)
  • Top Doctor, 5280 Magazine (2008)
  • Top Doctor, 5280 Magazine (2009)
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Division of Internal Medicine (2009)
  • Excellence in Teaching Award , Division of Internal Medicine (2010)
  • Thomas Jefferson Award, University of Colorado (2006)
    This award honors a faculty member whose life and work promote a Jeffersonian commitment to broad intellectual pursuits and to the advancement of democratic principles.
  • Member, Academy of Medical Educators (2010)
    Membership in the Academy recognizes excellence in medical education.

Research Interests

My research interests include the impact of policy on access to care and the evaluation of educational interventions to improve professionalism, collaboration, and quality of care.

Publications

  • Horizons Magazine - "Faith, Justice, and Healthcare"
  • Earnest MA, Faith, Justice, and Healthcare, Horizons magazine, May 2006
  • Earnest MA, Wong S, Adams L, Kamin C, Leadership and Advocacy Training for Medical Students – the CU-LEADS Project, Accepted for presentation Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting, Los Angeles, May 2006
  • Earnest MA, McInnes S, Wittevrongel L, End of Life Decision Making in Advanced Genetic Lung Disease, Accepted for presentation Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting, Los Angeles, May 2006
  • Matlock D, Epstein A, Earnest MA, Payer Related Disparities in Joint Replacement in the United States, Accepted for presentation Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting, Los Angeles, May 2006
  • A Property Right Medical Care; Journal of Legal Medicine 29(1), 65-80.
  • Payer Related Disparities in Joint Replacement in the United States, In press: Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research.
  • Teaching the Cost of Hospital Care to Medical Students - SGIM National Meeting
  • Earnest, MA, Bowen-Matthew, D. Health Care as a Property Right, Journal of Legal Medicine, Vol 29, No. 1, 2008
  • A Novel Curriculum in Leadership for Medical Students
  • A Multi-Disciplinary Elective Enhances Advocacy Skills in Graduate Level Trainees
  • Earnest MA, Wong S, Federico S, Physician Advocacy – What Is It and How Do We Do It? Academic Medicine, 2010, 85(1), 63-67.
  • Earnest MA, Wong S, Federico S, “The Professsional Behaviors of Physicians and Pursuing Social Justice,” JAMA 2009, 302(12) 1269.
  • Earnest MA, Wong S, Federico S, Physician Advocacy – What Is It and How Do We Do It? Academic Medicine, 2010, 85(1), 63-67.
  • Aagaard E , Wagner R, Jackson D, Earnest MA, Teaching the Cost of Hospital Care to Medical Students. MedEdPORTAL; 2010. Available from: http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=7787
  • Long J, Lee R, Federico S, Battaglia C, Wong SF, Earnest MA, Developing Leadership and Advocacy Skills in Medical Students through Service-Learning. Invited manuscript, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice – Publication Pending.
  • Misky, G, Manheim J, Zehnder N, Nguyen V, Swenson PF, Klem P, Trujillo T, Earnest MA, Health Care Disparities in the Acute Management of Venous Thromboembolism Based on Insurance Status in the U.S. The Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. 2011, 32(4) 393-8.
  • Long J, Lee R, Federico S, Battaglia C, Wong SF, Earnest MA, Developing Leadership and Advocacy Skills in Medical Students through Service-Learning. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice – In Press.
  • Lee R, Battaglia C, Long J, Wong S, Federico S, Earnest MA, Interprofessional Education in Leadership and Advocacy, Medical Teacher, Accepted Nov 2011.
  • Lee R, Wong S, Long J, Federico S, Earnest MA, Interprofessional Education in Leadership and Advocacy, Medical Teacher, 2012, 34(2): 179-80
  • Dow, A.W., Blue, A.V., Cohen Konrad, S., Earnest, M.A., Leaphart, A., & Reeves, S. (2014). Interprofessional Leadership in the United States: Emerging Innovations. In Forman, D., Jones, M. and Thistlethwaite, J. (Eds.) Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. London: Palgrave MacMillan..
  • Earnest MD, Brandt B, Building a 21st Century Healthcare System by Aligning Practice Redesign and Interprofessional Education, Commissioned Paper for the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, published July 2013 http://macyfoundation.org/docs/macy_pubs/JMF_TransformingPatientCare_Jan2013Conference_fin_Web.pdf
  • Dow A, Blue A, Cohen-Konrad S, Earnest MA, Reeves S, The Moving Target: Outcomes of Interprofessional Education, Journal of Interprofessional Care, July 26, 2013.
  • Earnest, M.A., Brandt, B, Aligning Practice and Education to Advance Triple Aim Outcomes, Journal of Interprofessional Care, J Interprof Care, 2014, 28(6), 497-500.
  • Pfeifle, A, Earnest MA, The Creation of an Institutional Commons: Institutional and Individual Benefits and Risks in Global Health Interprofessional Education, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Volume 42, Number 4 (Winter 2014 Supplement)
  • Earnest MA, Pfeifle A, The Irreducible Needs of Interprofessional Education – Creating and Institutional Commons. Academic Medicine – In press 2016
  • Gilroy, C., Earnest M.A., Advocacy, in Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Ed. ten Have, H. 2015. http://link.springer.com/
  • Earnest M.A. Creating a Common Primary Care Enterprise Across the Disciplines – An Idea Whose Time has Come? JGIM Leadership Forum September 2015
  • Earnest M.A. – Sustaining Programs after Grants Expire – Invited Blog Post for Josiah Macy Junior Foundation – Published Feb 2016
  • Dow, A.W., Blue, A.V., Cohen Konrad, S., Earnest, M.A., Leaphart, A., & Reeves, S. (2014). Interprofessional Leadership in the United States: Emerging Innovations. In Forman, D., Jones, M. and Thistlethwaite, J. (Eds.) Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Earnest MA, Pfeifle A, Addressing the Irreducible Needs of Interprofessional Education – Creating and Sustaining an Institutional Commons. – Acad Med, 2016: 91(6) 754-6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27049542
  • Earnest MA, Williams J, Aagaard E, Toward an Optimal Pedagogy for Teamwork. In Press, Academic Medicine, Oct. 2016
  • Earnest, MA, Addressing the Health Impacts of Cannabis through Interprofessional Education – Institutional and Curricular Considerations. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 2018
  • Madigosky W, Glover J, Franson KL, Earnest MA, Interprofessional Education and Development (IPED): a longitudinal team-based learning course introducing teamwork/collaboration, values/ethics, and safety/quality to health professional students, Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice, Available online 3 January 2019
  • Earnest MA, Madigosky WS, Yamashita T, Brunner T, Hanson JL, Validity Evidence for Using an Online Peer-Assessment Tool (CATME) to Assess Individual Contributions to Interprofessional Student Teamwork in a Longitudinal Team-Based Learning Course. Journal of Interprofessional Care –
  • Earnest M.A. – Why SGIM Should Not Endorse Single Payer Reform – JGIM Forum – October, 2018
  • Earnest MA, Schwartz MD – Planting our Flag – Shaping Policy and Practice through SGIM White Papers – Jan. 2019
  • Earnest MA, On Becoming a Plague Doctor. NEJM, online ahead of print, May 20, 2020
  • Cervantes L, Carr AL, Welles CC, Zoucha J, Steiner JF, Johnson T, Earnest MA, Camacho C, Suresh K, Hasnain-Wynia R, The Experience of Primary Caregivers of Undocumented Immigrants with End-Stage Kidney Disease that Rely on Emergency-Only Hemodialysis. JGIM 2020.
  • Byoff E, Kangovi S, Berkowitz S, DeCamp M, Dzeng E, Earnest MA, Gonzalez C, et al, A Society of General Internal Medicine Position Statement on the Internists’ Role in Social Determinants of Health. JGIM. 2020 Sep;35(9): 2721-2727. PubMed PMID: 32519320
  • Aagaard E, Earnest MA, Educational leadership in the time of a pandemic: Lessons from two institutions. FASEB Bioadvances, 2020;00, 1-7.
  • Barocas, J, Earnest MA, The urgent public health need to develop ‘Crisis Standards of Housing’: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. American Journal of Public Health. Accepted April 9, 2021
  • Earnest MA - “Our Strength is Our Union” Invited commentary from History Colorado, https://www.historycolorado.org/story/hindsight-2020/2020/12/28/our-strength-our-union Dec 28, 2020.
  • Earnest MA, Pfeifer D, Pandemic Lesson in Is This the City We Imagined? Decisions that Define Denver – published by History Colorado, 2021
  • Earnest MA, Madigosky WS, Yamashita T, Hanson JL, Validity Evidence for Using an Online Peer-Assessment Tool (CATME) to Assess Individual Contributions to Interprofessional Student Teamwork in a Longitudinal Team-Based Learning Course. Journal of Interprofessional Care Jan 2022
  • Earnest MA, Wong S, Federico S, Cervantes, L, A Model of Physician Advocacy to Inform Education and Practice. JGIM. Nov. 2022.
  • Earnest MA, Engineering for Grief, NEJM, 12/24/2022
  • Altman R, Earnest MA, Lin CT, Problem-Oriented Documentation: Design and Widespread Adoption of a Novel Toolkit in a Commercial Electronic Health Record. JAMIA, 2023 (in Press)
  • Earnest MA, When Cancer Cured Pain, NEJM, 2023 in press
  • Altman R, Earnest MA, Lin CT, Problem-Oriented Documentation: Design and Widespread Adoption of a Novel Toolkit in a Commercial Electronic Health Record. JAMIA, 2023 (6)1, April 2023
  • Earnest MA, When Cancer Cured Pain, NEJM, March 9, 2023; 388:870-871
  • Earnest MA, A Thin Pane, NEJM, May 18, 2023; 388:1830-1831
  • Earnest MA, Something for Sleep, NEJM, December 14, 2023. 389:2218-2219. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2308805

Professional Memberships

  • American College of Physicians (ACP), Fellow
  • Society of General Internal Medicine, Member

Practice Locations

UCHealth Internal Medicine - Anschutz Medical Campus
1635 Aurora Ct
5th Floor
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-2300

Hospital Affiliation
  • University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Internal Medicine, Board Certification (1993)
Care Philosophy
I strive to provide the best possible care for all of my patients and to provide that care in the context of a collaborate relationship where their values guide the care they receive.

Personal Interests
In my spare time I enjoy telemark skiing, guitar, photography, woodworking, spending time with my wife and kids, and anything outdoors.

Public Speaking
Yes
Health care reform, conflicts of interest in medicine and fostering effective collective action