Mark Allen Young, M.D., F.A.C.P., is a board-certified specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and a licensed acupuncturist. His subspecialty interest is in pain management. He graduated from the Finch University Chicago Medical School, did his residency at the Albert Einstein Montefiore Medical Center, and was recruited to the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1991.

He is an active member of the Johns Hopkins Physicians and Surgeons Association, and is a past president of the Maryland State Society of PM&R. He also serves as Chairman of the Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Maryland Rehabilitation Center at the Maryland State Department of Education.

He has authored many professional publications relating to rehabilitation medicine, which have appeared in JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, and the New York Times, among other publications, and he has written and edited four rehabilitation textbooks that have been translated into many foreign languages.

He has lectured extensively in this country and abroad. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.