Dr. Mork graduated from high school in Worthington, MN and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1973 with a degree in biology. He graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry in 1976. He was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry before joining the US Public Health Service. He completed a General Practice Residency and has been a dentist in hospitals in Galveston and Houston, Texas as well as Baltimore, Maryland, Portland, Maine and most recently, Cass Lake, Minnesota.