Beth E Ebel, MD

Beth E Ebel, MD

General Pediatrics

On staff since May 2000

Academic Title: Professor

Language (Other than English): Spanish

    • Sharon Seattle 07.27.15

      Dr. Ebel took care of our son after a brain injury and made sure he got the physical therapy and support we've needed during his recovery. Amazing team.

    • Lindsay Seattle, WA 11.05.13

      We met Dr. Ebel when my daughter was injured at Harborview. She was a great listener, and her team provided outstanding care for our family during an incredibly stressful time.

    Recommend Beth E Ebel, MD

  • Other Publications

    • American Academy of Pediatrics. Policy statement--child fatality review.
      20805149 Pediatrics, 2010 Sept. : 592-6
    • Quistberg DA, Lozano P, Mack CD, Schwartz R, Ebel BE
      A comparison of self-report and direct observation of booster seat use in Latino families.
      20501473 Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 2010 Aug. : 225-9
    • Prevention of drowning.
      20498166 Pediatrics, 2010 July : 178-85
    • Damsere-Derry J, Ebel BE, Mock CN, Afukaar F, Donkor P
      Pedestrians' injury patterns in Ghana.
      20441816 Accident; analysis and prevention, 2010 July : 1080-8
    • Weiss J
      Prevention of drowning.
      20498167 Pediatrics, 2010 July : e253-62
    • Yankson IK, Browne EN, Tagbor H, Donkor P, Quansah R, Asare GE, Mock CN, Ebel BE
      Reporting on road traffic injury: content analysis of injuries and prevention opportunities in Ghanaian newspapers.
      20570987 Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 2010 June : 194-7
    • Ebel BE, Medina MH, Rahman AK, Appiah NJ, Rivara FP
      Child injury around the world: a global research agenda for child injury prevention.
      19494104 Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 2009 June : 212
    • Thompson DA, Flores G, Ebel BE, Christakis DA
      Comida en venta: after-school advertising on Spanish-language television in the United States.
      18346518 The Journal of pediatrics, 2008 April : 576-81
    • Ebel BE, Coronado GD, Thompson B, Martinez T, Fitzgerald K, Vaca F, Rivara FP
      Child passenger safety behaviors in Latino communities.
      16702720 Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, 2006 May : 358-73
    • Hollingworth W, Ebel BE, McCarty CA, Garrison MM, Christakis DA, Rivara FP
      Prevention of deaths from harmful drinking in the United States: the potential effects of tax increases and advertising bans on young drinkers.
      16562413 Journal of studies on alcohol, 2006 March : 300-8
    • Roudsari BS, Ebel BE, Corso PS, Molinari NA, Koepsell TD
      The acute medical care costs of fall-related injuries among the U.S. older adults.
      16214476 Injury, 2005 Nov. : 1316-22
    • Lapidus JA, Smith NH, Ebel BE, Romero FC
      Restraint use among northwest American Indian children traveling in motor vehicles.
      16195522 American journal of public health, 2005 Nov. : 1982-8
    • Fishman PA, Ebel BE, Garrison MM, Christakis DA, Wiehe SE, Rivara FP
      Cigarette tax increase and media campaign cost of reducing smoking-related deaths.
      15958247 American journal of preventive medicine, 2005 July : 19-26
    • Gentilello LM, Ebel BE, Wickizer TM, Salkever DS, Rivara FP
      Alcohol interventions for trauma patients treated in emergency departments and hospitals: a cost benefit analysis.
      15798453 Annals of surgery, 2005 April : 541-50
    • Wiehe SE, Garrison MM, Christakis DA, Ebel BE, Rivara FP
      A systematic review of school-based smoking prevention trials with long-term follow-up.
      15737770 The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2005 March : 162-9
    • Carroll AE, Zimmerman FJ, Rivara FP, Ebel BE, Christakis DA
      Perceptions about computers and the internet in a pediatric clinic population.
      15780015 Ambulatory pediatrics : the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, 2005 March : 122-6
    • Christakis DA, Ebel BE, Rivara FP, Zimmerman FJ
      Television, video, and computer game usage in children under 11 years of age.
      15520768 The Journal of pediatrics, 2004 Nov. : 652-6
    • McCarty CA, Ebel BE, Garrison MM, DiGiuseppe DL, Christakis DA, Rivara FP
      Continuity of binge and harmful drinking from late adolescence to early adulthood.
      15342844 Pediatrics, 2004 Sept. : 714-9
    • Rivara FP, Ebel BE, Garrison MM, Christakis DA, Wiehe SE, Levy DT
      Prevention of smoking-related deaths in the United States.
      15261898 American journal of preventive medicine, 2004 Aug. : 118-25
    • Garrison MM, Christakis DA, Ebel BE, Wiehe SE, Rivara FP
      Smoking cessation interventions for adolescents: a systematic review.
      14580641 American journal of preventive medicine, 2003 Nov. : 363-7
    • Christakis DA, Garrison MM, Ebel BE, Wiehe SE, Rivara FP
      Pediatric smoking prevention interventions delivered by care providers: a systematic review.
      14580640 American journal of preventive medicine, 2003 Nov. : 358-62
    • Ebel BE, Koepsell TD, Bennett EE, Rivara FP
      Too small for a seatbelt: predictors of booster seat use by child passengers.
      12671146 Pediatrics, 2003 April : e323-7
    • Ebel BE, Koepsell TD, Bennett EE, Rivara FP
      Use of child booster seats in motor vehicles following a community campaign: a controlled trial.
      12588272 JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 2003 Feb. 19 : 879-84
    • Ebel BE, Grossman DC
      Crash proof kids? An overview of current motor vehicle child occupant safety strategies.
      12560804 Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care, 2003 Feb. : 38-55
    • Ebel BE, Feinglass SR, Koepsell TD
      Pacifier as a risk factor for acute otitis media.
      11837238 Pediatrics, 2002 Feb. : 351-2; author reply 353

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Overview

Board Certification(s)

Pediatrics

Medical/Professional School

University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Residency

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Clinical Interests

Distracted driving and teen driving safely; injury prevention; language access and quality of care

Research Description

I am the director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, a multidisciplinary research institute encompassing the fields of pediatrics, surgery, biostatistics, epidemiology, psychiatry, trauma care and social work, nursing, and health economics. The goal of the Injury Center is to develop, apply, and evaluate current and new interventions and strategies to decrease the morbidity and mortality due to injuries. My research interests include injury prevention, community interventions and health behaviors, with emphasis on high-risk populations. I am the principal investigator in recent studies of the Seattle campaign to encourage booster seat use for young passengers and in a multisite community intervention to improve child passenger safety in Latino communities. I am also the principal investigator for several studies measuring the healthcare costs of unrestrained motor vehicle occupants, a grant to quantitatively measure and improve interpreted care for limited English proficiency children and families, and a Fogarty grant to improve trauma care in developing countries.

Research Focus Area

Quality Improvement, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Genetics and Developmental Biology