Peter E. Franklin, M.D. was born and raised in San Francisco, California; studied pre-med at UC Santa Barbara and received his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Franklin has 3 grown children and 2 grandchildren. His interests include dogs, gardening, playing ukulele and traveling(especially to Hawaii). He developed an interest in Dive Medicine in the later 199’s and became a member of Divers Alert Network in 1997. You can see more about this under Diving Medicine and the Monterey bay Aquarium.