is Founder and Executive Editor of Policy Prescriptions®. A summa cum laude graduate of Morehouse College, where he received a B.S. in biology, Dr. Dark earned his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. He holds a master’s degree from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He completed his residency training at George Washington University while serving as Chief Resident in the 2009-2010 academic year. Currently, Dr. Dark is an attending physician at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and Board Certified in the field of Emergency Medicine. Beginning in the summer of 2013, he will join the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine’s Emergency Medicine residency program.
Dr. Dark’s policy experience includes work for the United States House of Representatives and the Kaiser Family Foundation. He has been an invited speaker for organizations such as Physicians for a National Health Program, the American Medical Student Association, the Student National Medical Association, and has given Grand Rounds lectures across the country. Dr. Dark’s policy interests include the study of health reform at the intersection with international health systems and teaching health policy to clinicians. He endeavors to assure that all Americans possess health security through a universal health care system focused on continuity, affordability, and access to quality health care.
