Internal medicine practitioners
Eric De Montmollin Marler, MD
Eric Marler, MD, is an internal medicine primary care doctor with Upstate Family Medicine in Seneca, South Carolina. Originally from Durham, North Carolina, he was inspired to become a doctor after volunteering with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in India and Nepal in 1987. Mother Teresa met with the volunteers on several occasions, and deeply inspired Marler with their example of Christian faith, charity, service and humility. Dr. Marler completed his bachelor of arts in communication studies at The State University of New York and he pursued undergraduate studies in microbiology at McGill University. His medical school training was at New York Medical College, and he completed a residency in internal medicine at University of Massachusetts. He is board certified in internal medicine. Marler moved to Columbia, South Carolina, in 1999 to complete a two-year National Health Service Corps (Public Health) commitment at Waverly Family Practice. In 2001 he worked as an assistant professor for the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of South Carolina Specialty Clinics, where he taught medical residents outpatient and inpatient care, as well as seeing private patients in the faculty practice. Marler worked as medical director of Longs Pharmacy in Columbia and founded a solo practice, Millbrook Internal Medicine, in 2003. In January 2013 he joined Piedmont Internal Medicine West in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and in 2014 served as an assistant clinical professor at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM), precepting outpatient medicine to student doctors. In 2015, he joined Bon Secours Medical Group in Greenville, South Carolina, and in 2017 Woodward Medical Center. In 2021, he joined Prisma Health Family and Internal Medicine Seneca, South Carolina, near beautiful Lake Keowee.