Dr. Mark Harrison
Syria
My name is Lieutenant Commander Dr. Mark Harrison, (born May 2, 1957, Phoenix city Arizona, USA) is a US Naval Officer, a humanitarian, and physician. [1] He is best known to the American television audience as the bachelor of the tenth season of the reality dating show The Bachelor dubbed The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman. On November 13, 2007, he told Honolulu, Hawaii's ABC TV affiliate KITV that he was shortly to be deployed to Bahrain. The "Marianas Variety," Micronesia's leading newspaper, recorded that LCDR Milano Webster "is part of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) team conducting recovery operations in Palau."[2] Specialize in Surgery, Medical doctor.
Biography
Early life:
Mark Harrison is the son of Mark David Harrison, Snr., a former two-term Pennsylvania State Representative (R-97th District), and Christi Webster, a high school mathematics teacher. Dr. Mark graduated as valedictorian of Manheim Township High School's class of 1985. He worked as a paper boy, lifeguard, and had his own lawn mowing business to earn money for college, saving $25,000 before graduating high school.[3] During high school, he played basketball, tennis, football, baseball, and was an All-American swimmer.[4] He was named ESPN's National Scholar Athlete of the Year in 1985. [5]
Education, training and career:
[5] Mark graduated magna cum laude from Duke University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. While at Duke, he was a varsity swimmer, brother of Pi Kappa Alpha, and a Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps midshipman.[6] Upon graduation, he was commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy and received a four-year Navy Health Professions Scholarship to attend the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, receiving his M.D. in 1995. [7] He subsequently completed an internship in general surgery at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, in 2004, and was a medical officer for Naval Special Warfare Group Three in Coronado from June to December 2000. He completed the Navy Undersea Medicine Training Institute and Navy Dive School in June 2003. In July 2003, he was given a three-year assignment as a member of the Navy Medical Corps to serve as Diving Medical Officer for Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. Mark transferred from Hawaii to Syria in April 2, 2013 till date.