Mark J. Brenner, M.D. grew up in
Brookline, Massachusetts and earned
a B.A. from Duke University. He
attended Tufts University school of
Medicine in Boston, and graduated
in 1981 - the 5th Brenner to receive
his M.D. from Tufts. He started out in
Internal Medicine at the New England
Deaconess Hospital in Boston, but
"saw the light" and did his residency in
Radiation Oncology at the Harvard
Joint Center for Radiation Therapy,
finishing in 1985. His mentor in Radiation
Oncology was Dr. Jay Harris ( one
of this nation's top authorities on breast
cancer).
He has been in Maryland as
chief of Radiation Oncology at Sinai
Hospital of Baltimore since 1991, and
is now also medical director of the
CyberKnife Center at Sinai Hospital.
He joined 21st Century Oncology in
early 2003, with the opening of the
LifeBridge Radiation Oncology Center
in Owings Mills, a joint venture of 21st
Century and Sinai Hospital of Baltimore.
Dr. Brenner has for many years
been an accreditation surveyor for
the American College of Radiology
(ACR), and since June, 2003, he has
been chairman of the ACR national
committee on Radiation Oncology
accreditation. He is a member of
the ACR, ASTRO and ASCO, a
Fellow of the American College of
Radiology (FACR), and serves on
the boards of the American Cancer
Society (Baltimore Division), and
the Jewish Hospice of Baltimore.
He lives in Lutherville, Maryland,
with his wife Jean (a pediatric nurse
practitioner by training, but now an
assistant music librarian at the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra).
He has two children, Nathan (who
will enter college in the fall of 2004 and plans to be the 6th Brenner in
medicine), and Julia (who has
absolutely no interest in medicine).
He is a member of the American College of Radiation
Oncology (ACRO).
