Mark has 40 years of healthcare experience. He completed Associate, Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Nursing as well as certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He also attended the Executive MBA program at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. His career spans clinical, academic and administrative duties in a wide variety of settings.
Mark’s career took a radical turn toward providing hospice care when both his father and older brother were stricken and died from terminal cancer in 2004. Mark has served as Director of Duke Hospice, Vice President of Clinical Operations for Hospice of Wake County, and currently serves as Director of Education and Volunteer Services at Transitions LifeCare in Raleigh, NC.
Mark has served as President of the Triangle Chapter of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association and on the Board of Directors of the Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care.