Mark Porter, Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire is a General Practice and medical correspondent for The Times.
Education
He grew up in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, and went to the independent schools Monmouth and Wycliffe College. He studied at University College, London and Westminster Hospital Medical School (now Imperial College School of Medicine) and graduated in 1986. He has been a General Practice since 1990 and was appointed Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine in 2005.
Career
He also presents on Radio 4 Case Notes and Inside Health. He joined The One Show on British Broadcasting Corporation One in 2011. He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1992 as the doctor for the morning show Good Morning with Anne and Nick and was there for the show"s whole run.
He was the health editor for the Radio Times from 1993-2003.
He presented the BBC1 programme Watchdog Healthcheck. He took over from Doctor Thomas Stuttaford as The Times doctor in January 2009, and is doctor to The One Show (British Broadcasting Corporation One).
He presents Inside Health, a British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 series discussing health issues, which had its first broadcast on 10 January 2012.