J. Joseph Marr

J. Joseph Marr, MD, graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The first twenty years of his career were in academic medicine where he held positions of Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Biochemistry, and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Medicine. Thereafter, he entered into executive management of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for another decade and completed his career as a Partner in an international venture capital firm. He has had a lifetime interest in social aspects of medicine and universal access to medical care and has written extensively on these topics. In addition to over 200 medical and scientific articles, he has published seven books and over twenty-five short stories, essays, and poems. He now lives near Denver, CO.