Mark A. Graber, MD, is a board-certified family practitioner and Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery and Family Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, IA. He has taught at the University of Iowa since 1994, and was promoted to Research Director and Resident Education Director in the Division of Emergency Medicine in 1999. Dr Graber received his Doctorate of Medicine from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA in 1981, and interned at the Mary Imogene Basset Hospital in Cooperstown, NY from 1981 to 1982. He completed his residency at the University of Iowa in 1994, at which time he received the Ciba-Geigy Award for Outstanding Resident Research.

Dr Graber was the recipient of the Iowa Excellence in Geriatrics Research Health Care Professional Award in 2000, and won the Teacher of the Year Award at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 1997 and 1999. In 2000 he was a Visiting Professor at Beijing Medical University, in the People's Republic of China, and in 1998 was a Visiting Professor at the Medical Academy of St Petersburg in St Petersburg, Russia. Dr Graber is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Family Practice Handbook, 3^rd edition, which was published by Mosby-Yearbook in 1997. Dr Graber is certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Advanced Pediatric Life Support, and Advanced Trauma Life Support.