Mark M. Stecker received his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Pennsylvania and his M.D. degree at Harvard, completed a residency in neurology at the University of Pennsylvania followed by a neuroscience/epilepsy fellowship. He has had a number of leadership positions in neurology, including founding chair of neuroscience at Winthrop University Hospital, and is now president of the Fresno Institute of Neuroscience, which is focused on clinical care in neurology and neurophysiology as well as research in neuroscience.