New Medical Director

At Masonicare

Dr David R. Marks of Weston has been named medical director at Masonicare at Newtown, the 154-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Newtown. Dr Marks was formerly head physician for short-term rehabilitation at Masonicare in Wallingford.

He has been medical director at a number of nursing and short-term rehabilitation facilities, and also served on the staff at the Jewish Home in New Haven.

Dr Marks received his BA summa cum laude from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and his MD from the Yale University School of Medicine. He also received a master of public administration degree from New York University. Board-certified in internal medicine, Dr Marks completed an internship and residency at the Yale University School of Medicine/Greenwich Hospital program in internal medicine, where he also served as chief resident. He then served as a fellow in allergy and clinical immunology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr Marks began his medical career at the New England Center for Headache in Stamford.

In addition to practicing medicine, Dr Marks has worked as a television health reporter — first for NBC’s Connecticut affiliate, NBC30, and then at WNBC in New York and later at WCBS in New York where he was health and science editor and chief medical reporter.

Dr Marks continues to be a frequent guest on d-life TV, a program dedicated to diabetes that appears Sunday nights on CNBC.

Dr Marks has authored two books: The Headache Prevention Cookbook: Eating Right To Prevent Migraines and Other Headaches published in 2000 and Raising Stable Kids in an Unstable World, published in 2004. He and his pediatrician wife have three children.