Mark E Borden Md

About Mark E Borden Md

About the Author Dr. Borden graduated from high school at sixteen years of age and spent time traveling the country pursuing the sport of falconry. Mark was also an avid diver, and at the peak of his free-diving (breath hold diving) ability, represented the USA on the World Spearfishing Team in Mallorca, Spain. Mark's father, seeing major changes in the medical profession, advised him to "go into business, not medicine." Mark became a SCUBA instructor in San Diego, but as teaching SCUBA became less challenging, he discovered there was more money to be made as a commercial diver. Mark maintained a love of biology and continued to take a course each semester at San Diego State University. It was in Marine Invertebrate Zoology that he met the "love of his life," Erin Elizabeth Riley. Erin was working on her master's degree. When Erin was accepted into a PhD program at Washington State University, Mark sold the business and went with her to her home state of Washington. Pullman, Washington, is far from the ocean, but Erin was tolerant enough to share their apartment with a goshawk and a prairie falcon. Choosing between human and veterinary medicine was difficult for Dr. Borden. Mark's love of animals is obvious, and he has surrounded himself with them throughout his life.