Marc-David Munk is an emergency physician and health care executive. Over the past decade, he has held leadership roles at a range of nontraditional health care delivery organizations.
Munk began his career as a professor of emergency medicine and as the medical director for the Qatari national ambulance service. He later became a senior executive at high-performing physician groups in the US and abroad.
Munk grew up in Switzerland and Canada. He graduated from Colgate University with a BA in philosophy and religion and completed an MPH in international health from Boston University. After graduating from Philadelphia’s Jefferson Medical College, he did residency training in emergency medicine, completed a clinical fellowship in international health at the University of Pittsburgh, and then completed a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at Peru’s Gorgas Program. He also holds a master’s degree in health care management from Harvard University.
Munk lives outside Boston with his wife and his two children.
Urgent Calls from Distant Places is his first book.