Vernon H. Mark MD

1925 - 2014

NEWPORT – Vernon H. Mark, MD, of Newport RI, and formerly of Brookline, MA, 89, died Wednesday, December 31, 2014, at the Newport Hospital after a short illness.
Dr. Mark was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1925. He was the son of Dr. Daniel B. Mark and Diana Mark. He received both his MD and MS from the University of Minnesota.
From 1954 to 1957, he served as a Captain in the United States Air Force at the 7100th Hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Dr. Mark was an internationally known neurosurgeon and was a retired Chief of the Neurosurgical Service and Honorary Physician at the Boston City Hospital. In 1988, he retired, after thirty-seven years from the teaching staff of Harvard Medical School as an Associate Professor of Surgery. He had been associated with the neurosurgical service of the Massachusetts General Hospital since 1949. After his retirement, he continued to practice medicine as a private consultant until 2012.
Dr. Mark was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honors medical society, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He co-authored, with Dr. Frank D. Irvin, Violence and the Brain (1970) and, with his son Jeffery P. Mark, Brain Power (1989) and Reversing Memory Loss (1999).
Dr. Mark was an accomplished classical pianist.
He is survived by his wife Alexandra Mark of Newport, four children, Dr. Daniel Mark of Chapel Hill, NC, David Mark of Barrington, Valerie Lippe of Newport and Jeffrey Mark of Sacramento, CA, as well as 11 grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held at the O'Neill-Hayes Funeral Home, 465 Spring Street in Newport, on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 1 p.m. Burial will be private.
For more information and online condolences, please visit www.oneillhayes.com.

This obituary was originally published in The Newport Daily News (Newport, RI).