Instead of being just a Church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a Church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.
Pope Francis
Dr. Blaser, obtained his medical degree at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1986, followed by a pediatric residency program at Children's Memorial Hospital of Northwestern University Medical Center in Chicago where he also completed his Allergy/Immunology Fellowship in 1991. He is currently in private practice with Medical Arts Associates, Ltd in Moline, Illinois.
Dr. Blaser has been a member of Catholic Medical Association since 2014.
He has served in the position of Medical Director of Annual Haiti Medical Missions of the St. John Vianney Parish since 2011. Their program has been striving to develop a self-sufficient and self-sustainable faith community in Jean- Denis in Haiti with priorities of building a new school, churches, and establishing micro financing programs.
Mark has personally made multiple mission trips as a physician to Jean-Denis, Jamaica and Belize, seeing on average over 1,200 consultations during their 4 day clinics.