“When I started at OSU, I knew I was going to have to keep my nose in the books,” Ebert says. His choice of roommates, a pre-veterinary major and a pre-dental major, made simpler Ebert’s mission to keep up his GPA. “It was an easy environment in which to study,” says the Bartlesville, Okla., native. Ebert is from a brood of OSU loyalists. His father, brother and sister all earned their degrees from OSU, but he was the only one to tackle medicine. Before he started his junior year, he married his wife of 30 years, Bartlesville native and fellow OSU student, Renee. He served on the President’s Leadership Council at OSU and was a student academic adviser for incoming and undecided freshmen. He also was on the President’s Honor Roll and a member of the pre-med students’ honor society, Alpha Epsilon Delta. Following his graduation from OSU in 1978, Ebert graduated from the College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma and completed his residency in gynecology in 1985 at the college’s Tulsa branch. But Stillwater lured Ebert back. In 1985, the young gynecologist joined the Stillwater Women’s Clinic, where he has worked ever since. “It’s always been rewarding to develop relationships with patients and their families,” Ebert says. In 2005, he stopped delivering babies but says those 20 years are some of his most memorable. “Working in obstetrics with patients and their families and being involved in starting their families was one of the most rewarding parts of the practice,” he says. As a student, Ebert could never catch enough OSU football games. And that hasn’t changed. Today, Ebert and his family are entrenched in the Stillwater community and attend as many games as they can to root for their Cowboys. Matt Elliott Tending the Next Generation of Cowboys Dr. Mark Ebert was a busy OSU pre-med student in 1974, but that didn’t stop him from getting involved in the College of Arts and Sciences Student Council. 1977 STUDENT COUNCIL OSU Special Collections Gary Lawson Oklahoma State University 5
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