Mark Sellers

Mark Sellers joined the Surveillance Research Program (SRP) as a Health Specialist after conversion from the Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF) program. He is currently working with the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, with a focus on the SEER in the News, Cancer Stat Facts, Did You Know? video series, Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, JNCI "Stat Bites" and other projects involving analysis, patient and researcher education, and data dissemination. He also manages and facilitates efforts related to SEER data linkages with external sources of data, such as pharmacy, medical claims, and more.

Mark graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN with a B.S. in Physics and minor in Spanish in May 2015 and earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis in May 2020. His research at Rhodes involved a NIH-funded project to investigate an ultrasonic method for detecting changes in bone density caused by osteoporosis. Mark is passionate about science education, and he completed an internship in 2014 with the Society of Physics Students to develop physics demonstration kits for students from elementary to high school. He also volunteered as a science educator both at Washington University in St. Louis and at the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis. His Ph.D. research, which was supported through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP), focused on nucleation—the formation of crystallites in a liquid as it changes into a solid—and how gravity or local atomic structure either helped or hindered this process.