Wm. Marcus Spurlock, MD (highlight and link to CV) is a board certified Family Physician with a strong leaning to the environmental aspects of health, disease and medicine. Dr. Spurlock is one of the full-time physicians working at the Environmental Health Center in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Spurlock also has a large expertise in Anti-Aging medicine which follows closely the same thought processes as Environmental Medicine. Essentially, illness = aging. If you slow down illness, you slow down aging, and vice versa. He has been a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine for over 9 years, and he works diligently with his patients to prevent illness. He plans to continue to investigate and help his patients with optimal aging therapies along with environmental treatment for his patients in that arena. His fourth area of expertise is viral diseases, for which he has been working for over 17 years. He brings a compliment of additional professional services to the Environmental Health Center – Dallas to make it as up-to-date and relevant as possible. Dr. Spurlock is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and a member of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Dr. Spurlock graduated from the Louisiana State University in Shreveport with a Bachelor of Science and Medicine and the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport with a Medical Doctorate. He then completed an internship at Louisiana State University Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. He held a Family Practice residency from 1982-84 as a mixed program, rotating at LSU Hospital in Shreveport, E. A. Conway Hospital in Monroe, Louisiana, Veterans Administration Hospital in Shreveport, and T. E. Schumpert Memorial Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. From 1984-94, Dr. Spurlock had the position of associate professor at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport as a Family Practice Preceptor in the Comprehensive Care Clinic. He also was a professor and clinic physician at the Viral Disease Clinic of LSU Hospital from 1992-94. He was the medical director for two nursing homes in the Shreveport/Bossier City area while practicing in Shreveport. Dr. Spurlock has been on numerous hospital committees including the Executive Committee during his tenure at hospitals in Louisiana and Texas. He spent three years in the United States Air Force from 1984-87 as a staff physician in the Family Practice clinic at Barksdale AFB Hospital in Bossier City, Louisiana. While there, he obtained certification as a Flight Surgeon.