Mark Yarborough, M.A., Ph.D.
Title
Specialty
Dean's Professor of Bioethics
Bioethics
Division
General Medicine
Center/Program Affiliation
Bioethics Program
Email
Education
mayarborough@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 1984
M.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 1980
B.A., Berry College, Mt. Berry GA 1977
Select Recent Publications
Yarborough M. Scientists must be open to keep the public's trust. Nature, 2014; 515:313.
Yarborough M. When there are only two who can tango: ethical concerns at the juncture of highly
novel interventions and precisely targeted research populations, Open Peer Commentary, The
American Journal of Bioethics, 2015; 15(4): 1–2.
Yarborough M. Taking steps to increase the trustworthiness of scientific research, The FASEB
Journal. 2014; 28:3841-3846.
Yarborough M, Tempkin T, Nolta J, Joyce N, The Complex Ethics of First in Human Stem Cell
Clinical Trials, AJOB Neuroscience, 2012; 3(2):14-16.
Callahan, E.J., Hazarian, S., Yarborough, M., Sanchez, J.P.. Eliminating LGBTIQQ health
disparities: The associated roles of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and institutional culture.
LGBT Bioethics: Visibility, Disparities, and Dialogue, special report, Hastings Center Report 44, no.
5 (2014).
Jetter KM, Yarborough M, Cassady DL, Styne DM. Building Research Capacity with Members of
Mark Yarborough, M.A., Ph.D.
Underserved American Indian/Alaskan Native Communities: Training in Research Ethics and the
Protection of Human Subjects, Health Promotion Practice, 2014; DOI: 10.1177
/1524839914548450.
Yarborough M, Increasing enrollment in drug trials: the need for greater transparency about the
social value of research in recruitment efforts. Mayo Clin Proc, 2013;88(5):442-445.
Yarborough M, Hunter, L. Teaching research ethics better: Focus on excellent science, not bad
scientists. Clinical and Translational Science, 2013; DOI:0.1111/cts.12035.
Sorensen PL, Gane LW, Yarborough M, Hagerman RJ, Tassone F, Newborn Screening and Cascade
Testing for FMR1 Mutations. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2013;161A(1), 59-69.
Yarborough M, Fryer-Edwards K, Espinoza P, Geller G, Sarwal, A, Sharp RR, Spicer P.
Relationships hold the key to trustworthy and productive translational science: Recommendations
for expanding community engagement in biomedical research. Clinical and Translational Science,
2013, 6(4):310-313.
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