Biography of Mark Yerby, M.D., MPH

Mark Yerby, M.D., MPH, is a graduate of the University of Vermont, College of Medicine. He completed residencies in neurology and public health at Oregon Health and Sciences University and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Washington, where he received his MPH and fellowship training in epilepsy.

He has done original research in the area of epilepsy and pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes and is interested in neurological complications of pregnancy.

He was the American Academy of Neurology, Child Neurology Society, and American Neurological Association's first Health Policy Fellow and serves as Chair of the American Academy of Neurology's Legislative Affairs Committee.

Yerby is the director of both North Pacific Epilepsy Research and the Providence St. Vincent’s Epilepsy Program in Portland, Oregon. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and an Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology, OB-Gyn and Public Health and Preventive Medicine, at Oregon Health and Sciences University.

He serves on the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation Northwest and Epilepsy Foundation, and the State of Oregon Health Resources Commission.