Edward F. Ellerbeck, MD, MPH

Associate Professor & Chair, Preventive Medicine & Public Health
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine

How can we improve the quality of health care? This has been the underlying theme behind Ed’s research, teaching and service for the past 15 years. Ed worked for five years with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services on efforts to measure care for patients with cardiovascular disease; he developed collaborative projects with hospitals and clinics to improve both cardiovascular care and delivery of preventive services. His current research focuses on methods to improve the delivery of preventive services in clinical practice, in particular, enhancing smoking cessation services. He works with providers to modify systems of care and to provide care that is more reliable, efficient and of higher quality. In addition to smoking cessation, Ed is actively engaged in projects on obesity, colon cancer screening, mammography and heart failure management. As a practicing physician, Ed also leads a course for medical students examining systems of medical care and practice-based learning and improvement.

BA	Biology	University of Missouri at Kansas City
MD	Medicine	University of Missouri at Kansas City
MPH	Epidemiology	Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Residency	Internal Medicine	University of Missouri at Kansas City
Residency	Preventive Medicine	Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Fellowship	General Internal Medicine	Johns Hopkins School of Public Health