Mark is a licensed acupuncturist in Maryland and Utah. He is a graduate of the Traditional Acupuncture Institute in Columbia, Maryland, one of the first accredited acupuncture schools in the U.S., which is affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medical School and the Teaching Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. After graduating he became a faculty member and clinical supervisor at the Institute and also worked long-term as a volunteer staff acupuncturist at the Penn North Neighborhood Drug Detox facility in inner-city Baltimore.