Mark D. Somerson is an Assistant Metro Editor at The Columbus Dispatch. He oversees coverage of medicine, the business of medicine, the environment, science, Columbus neighborhoods and transportation. He also is responsible for the weekly Science section, the weekly Insight section and the monthly health section, called Your Health.

Before becoming an editor in 2000, Mark was a medical reporter at The Dispatch. He has worked at the newspaper since 1991.

He is a 1989 graduate of the School of Journalism at Ohio State University. His first newspaper job was at The News-Herald in Willoughby, Ohio, where he also covered medicine.

He is married, has two daughters and lives in Clintonville, a Columbus neighborhood.