Dr. Taisei Suzuki, born and raised in Japan, came to the United States when he was 15 as an international high school student. He studied biology at the University of Portland in Oregon, then received his master's in international public health at the University of Sydney in Australia. He worked as a humanitarian aid worker through nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations, stationed in various developing countries including Liberia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. Following his passion to become an osteopathic physician, Dr. Suzuki attended the A.T. Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and graduated in 2015. He completed his family medicine residency program through the Wright Center National Family Medicine Residency Program in 2018, trained at federally qualified health centers in Washington DC and Tucson AZ, and was a chief resident. He is a board-certified family medicine physician by the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians. Dr. Suzuki’s current role at Unity Health Care includes serving as an associate medical director at Parkside Clinic, a core faculty member for the Wright Center National Family Medicine Residency Program at Unity Health Care’s training site, an adjunct clinical assistant professor of family medicine at A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona, and a clinical assistant professor at George Washington University’s Department of Medicine. He provides comprehensive osteopathic medical care to his patients at Parkside Clinic as well as the Department of Correction. Dr. Suzuki is passionate about promoting osteopathic medicine to the next generation of physicians, and currently precepts the resident osteopathic manipulation treatment clinic. He completed a course in acupuncture for physicians, and is a certified acupuncturist in Washington D.C. In October 2022, he obtained his CCHP certification from NCCHC.