Jean Fisher Brinkley is NCMB’s Communications Director, a role that involves developing and overseeing production of communications materials and strategies needed to enhance public and professional awareness and understanding of the Board and its mission. She joined NCMB in 2008, after an 11-year career in newspaper journalism, most of it dedicated to reporting on medicine, health policy and the business aspects of health care.

Brinkley earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Mills College in Oakland, CA, and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Raleigh with her husband and two daughters.

You can reach Jean at podcast@ncmedboard.org

Marcus B. Jimison is Deputy General Counsel at the North Carolina Medical Board in Raleigh. He represents the Board in disciplinary cases involving physicians, physician assistants and other licensees. He advises the board on issues related to the corporate practice of medicine and advanced practice and allied health providers. Marcus is the primary medical board attorney assigned to the board's Advanced Practice Providers and Allied Health Committee, Nurse Practitioner Joint Subcommittee and Joint Subcommittee Panel, Joint Midwifery Committee, and the Perfusionists Advisory Committee.

Previously, Marcus was the staff attorney for the North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services from 1993 to 1998 and the managing attorney for the Land Loss Prevention Project from 1998 to 2002.

Marcus received his B.A. in History and Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill and his J.D., cum laude, from North Carolina Central University. He has been a member of the North Carolina Bar Association Health Law Section since 2002 and was a Health Law council member from 2008 to 2011.