Mark Pandori, PhD earned his undergraduate degree in Genetics from the University of California, Berkeley, followed by a PhD in Biomedical Science (Virology) from the University of California, San Diego. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Virus Engineering at Harvard Medical School and later served as an Instructor there.

Dr. Pandori has held numerous public health laboratory leadership roles, including Chief Microbiologist and Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health Laboratory, Laboratory Director for Alameda County, California, the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory, and the Butte County Public Health Laboratory. He currently serves as Chief of Laboratory Services for the Sacramento County Public Health Laboratory.

He is board certified by the American Board of Bioanalysis as a High-Complexity Laboratory Director in Molecular Diagnostics and holds Public Health Microbiology certification from the State of California. Dr. Pandori has authored or co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and serves as an editor for Microbiology Spectrum and PLOS ONE.