Biographies

Presenter, Case Notes

Mark Porter joined the BBC in 1992.

He was Health Editor at Radio Times for ten years, presented Watchdog Healthcheck for BBC One, and currently presents Case Notes on BBC Radio 4.

Mark spent five years in a variety of hospital specialities before entering general practice in South Gloucestershire where he still works part-time today.

He is a keen writer and is the Medical Correspondent at The Times and Health Editor for Sainsbury's Magazine.

He was awarded an MBE in 2005 for services to medicine.

Mark, a keen runner and tennis player, lives on an old farm in the Cotswolds with his wife and their two teenage daughters.

He says: "With Case Notes we aim to give listeners (and the presenter) an all-too-rare an insight into what leading specialists from around the world consider important in their particular field – an insider's guide to medicine.

"There's an old medical adage that if you want a good opinion, then ask a busy doctor – and that's exactly what we do on Case Notes."