Online Master of Health Administration 

offered by Cincinnati University

Mark has served as the health commissioner for the Lorain County Public Health since 2020 and was the health commissioner in Henry County prior to that and served as the director of environmental health at the Canton City Health Department for 24 years. He received his BS from the University of Akron, his MPH from Tulane University, and completed Officer Candidate School at the United States Coast Guard Academy. In Canton, Mark campaigned for changes in local lead and indoor air initiatives through collaborative partnerships, responded to hundreds of regional health incidents in various leadership capacities, and was a liaison between government and civilian stakeholders on issues relating to public health. As health commissioner, he acted as the incident commander for the county’s response to COVID in first preventing spread then leading the vaccination effort. As a Lieutenant for the USCG, Mark served with the Joint Terrorism Task Force, deployed numerous times, and retired after 24 years.

Dr. Boex has been active in medical and health professions education, public health and health care management for nearly fifty years. Over this period he has served as an award-winning teacher, a successful researcher and consultant, an innovative manager, and performed successful liaison work at the state and federal government levels. His experiences have occurred in one of the newest medical schools in the country and one of the oldest, as well as in a variety of public health and health care delivery settings. Over the years he has trained thousands of medical students and residents, attending physicians, practicing public health professionals, and graduate students in public health, health care management, the biomedical sciences, and related fields. His research interests converged around understanding effects at the intersection of clinical education and clinical care, including a variety of health care professions and across the continuum of care from tertiary care centers to the community at large. These investigations were supported by state and federal agencies and national foundations; resulted in many publications and national & international presentations, and continue to have policy and management impacts to the present. Based on these investigations, a number of major health care organizations sought his advice and counsel on related issues. He helped build and lead innovative programs in medical education and public health education. He urged e