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Whether you might be a prospective patient, an organization looking to fulfill a need, a potential business collaborator, or a professional clinical colleague, this “online resume+” profile will provide you meaningful insight as to his body of professional work and his character.  Feel free to submit any questions or inquiries in the Contact section below!  Peace and health to you, your family, and/or your organization!.

Mark Su, MD was born to hard-working parents who immigrated from Taiwan and embody the spirit of sacrifice and service to others. He was raised in Indiana with mid-western values such as humility, honesty, integrity, and treating others as you want to be treated.  Mark was high school Valedictorian, a leader at Cornell University, and upon completing medical school, Dr. Su was the Academic Chief Resident at Tufts University in Boston and received the national Mead-Johnson Award for outstanding scholastic performance in a Family Medicine residency.

He has practiced medicine in the north shore of Massachusetts since 2003, caring for patients in both a primary care setting as well as in functional medicine consultation for chronic complex illnesses, including Lyme/tickborne disease and CIRS/mycotoxin illness.  He founded Personal Care Physicians in 2014, and a national virtual consulting practice, RootSeek Health, in 2021. He is currently serving as president of ISEAI, and also a member of the IFM, ILADS, and AAFP.  Mark is continually driven to identify root causes of patients’ challenging conditions, and to empower patients with choices in their treatment planning.  He’s now equally driven to scale root cause medicine to “help more patients get better, faster”, collaborating with like-mission minded colleagues, health coaches, and other allied health professionals.

Dossier

Formal Education

Values

Media & Awards

Leadership

Personal Interests

Arts and Music

Books and Movies

People and Quotes

Sports

Travel

Websites

Dossier

Formal Education

Values

Media & Awards

Leadership

Arts and Music

Books and Movies

People and Quotes

Sports

Travel

Websites

Personal
Interests

Professional Memberships

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Arts and Music

Favorite Music Artists:
-Eric Clapton
-U2
-Sting
-Don Henley
-The Eagles
-Chris Tomlin
-Hillsongs United
-Yo-Yo Ma
-Diana Krall
-Miles Davis
-Herbie Hancock
-Seth Kaufman

Favorite Artists:
-Ansel Adams
-Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painters

Websites

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Travel

Memorable Places Visited:
-Alaska
-almost anywhere in the Caribbean
-Australia, New Zealand
-Zion National Park, Utah: a multiple annual trip with my oldest son +/- his friends 
-Banff, Canada   
-singing in the most famous cathedrals in Europe
-the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland (but no, I don’t ski)
-Hawaii – during a month of residency training, delivering babies in a hospital in Honolulu; also the magnificent view and tranquility of the Hokupa’a lanai at the Westin hotel in Maui (2024)
-Amsterdam 
-Croatia
-Mayan ruins in Mexico – Chichen Itza, etc

Bucket List Travel Destinations:
-over-the-water huts: Maldives, Caribbean, or elsewhere
-Machu Picchu, Peru
-Patagonia, Galapagos Islands
-Prague, Czechoslovakia
-the Azores of Portugal (from what people tell me)

Sports

I grew up with tennis as my only real focus, and continued that through my early professional working years. But as doubles was more common for adult leagues, I found it less of a workout, and my dominant shoulder was becoming problematic.

I shot around the basketball gyms on my own an awful lot starting in college, but never grew up with it or played any organizational ball save for 3rd and 4th grade PTA. But it’s become my love and passion by far, esp. ever since my early working years. I’ve been attending the Never Too Late camps (www.nevertoolate.com) since 2013 or so, and it’s one of my most favorite weekends of the year, by far. I continue to want to grow and improve my skills, and it’s a great workout, without being excessively pounding on my joints like tennis tended to be.

My college apartment-mate got me into lifting weights my sophomore year at Cornell, and I’ve never looked back. It’s a religious routine for me, every week of the year save being on vacation.

During the COVID-19 pandemic times, when gyms were closed, I learned to enjoy jump roping. I will stay with that whenever I can’t play basketball or as I get older. It’s a very efficient form of exercise!

I can imagine getting back into tennis some, or learning to enjoy racquetball, if the time comes that I can’t play basketball any longer. But that’s not for now.

I really can’t stand to run, just to run. It’s too boring for me. I’d rather just walk and meditate while doing so.

I’ve had no interest in golf, skiing, or water skiing. I can be a pretty good ping pong player if you give me a short bit of time to get back in the rhythm of it!

People and Quotes

Inspirational Heroes:

-Martin Luther King, Jr. 
-Bono, lead singer of U2, human rights advocate
-Andre Agassi, former professional tennis player
-Gregg Popovich, NBA head coach – San Antonio Spurs

Quotes:

“It’s not about any one person. You’ve got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done.”     
– Gregg Popovich, NBA coach

“No one is bigger than the team. If you can’t do things our way, you’re not getting time here and we don’t care who you are.”     
– Gregg Popovich, NBA coach

“We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually.”     
– Gregg Popovich, NBA coach

“Five years in Saigon, and my best friend is a V.C…. This will NOT look good on a resume!”   
– Robin Williams, in “Good Morning Vietnam!”

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”   
– Socrates

“People only look for leaks when the water’s coming out… but it’s the pressure that’ll get ya.”   
– Toby’s father, in “This Is Us” (TV show, NBC)

“You’re not talking about justice, you’re talking about revenge.  [Bruce Wayne: “Sometimes they’re the same.”]  No, they’re never the same, Bruce.  Justice is about harmony; revenge is about you making yourself feel better.”   
– Rachel Dawes, in “Batman Begins”

“You always fear what you don’t understand.”   
– Carmine Falcone, in “Batman Begins”

“Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.” … “That’s why it’s so important – it separates us from them.”
– R’as al Ghul and Bruce Wayne, in “Batman Begins”

“It’s not who you are underneath – it’s what you do that defines you.”
– Rachel Dawes, in “Batman Begins”

“A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely… A legend, Mr. Wayne.  A legend.”
– R’as al Ghul, in “Batman Begins”

“What you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power. You fear your anger, the drive to do great or terrible things.”
– R’as al Ghul, in “Batman Begins”

“You have learned to bury your guilt with anger. I will teach you to confront it and to face the truth.” 
– R’as al Ghul, in “Batman Begins”

“They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I’ve looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness, something terrifying, something that will not stop until it gets revenge… Me.”
– Bruce Wayne, in “Batman Begins”

“If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then *you are* the sucker.” 
– Matt Damon, in “Rounders”

“You don’t gamble, you grind it out… [but] if you’re too careful, your whole life can become a f*cking grind.” 
– Matt Damon, in “Rounders”

“You cannot keep yourself pure just by moving on every time someone disappoints you.  You think people in one town over are going to be any better?  No!  Human nature – it’s surprisingly universal, and it’s universally disappointing… So you might as well stay, and fight – the – fight, Bradley Jackson.” 
– Billy Crudup to Reese Witherspoon, in “The Morning Show” (S1, E10)

“Norm, I’m just trying to explain to my class, that acting is really an extension of living. It’s how we explore what it is to be human.”
“Bullsh*t! You know what it’s like to be human?  Is that something you want to know?  Fine, I’ll tell you.  It hurts to be human.  It hurts like hell.  And all the exploring doesn’t make that hurt go away, because being human, and being hurt, are the same damn thing!” 
– Michael Douglas (Sandy Kominsky) and Alan Arkin (Norman Newlander), in “The Kominsky Method”

“The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way.” 
– Gregg Popovich, NBA coach

“‘Play the right way’ means play unselfishly, respect each other’s achievements, play hard, fulfill your role.” 
– Gregg Popovich, NBA coach

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.” 
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Diversity is attending a party; Inclusion is being a contributing member of the party-planning committee.” 
– Daniel Juday

“You don’t get invited to the party to become relevant. You’re invited because you are relevant.” 
– Kathleen Parker (The Washington Post)

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” 
– Buddha, or Tao Te Ching

“If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.”   
– Zig Ziglar
(Or, “If you aim at nothing, you will hit nothing.”   
– Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)

“Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.”   
– Nicole Kidman, in “The Interpreter”

“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”  (or, “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”) 
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, MD, Ph.D

“Secrets have a cost. They’re not free. Not now, not ever.” 
– Aunt May (Sally Fields), in “The Amazing Spider-Man”

“With great power comes great responsibility.” 
– Uncle Ben, to Peter Parker (in Spider-Man); and parallel to Luke 12:48 from the Bible (“To whom much is given, much will be required.”)

“Our kids are here to teach us one thing – that they’re not going to be who we want them to be.” 
– Mindy M.

“You don’t have to be the best in the world… you just have to be the best in their world.” 
– Isaac Jones, DC

“The greater the resistance, the clearer the direction.” 
– Christine Flaherty, PhD

“There is a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell… and being in prison.”   
– Clive Owen, in “Inside Man”

“You and Rowdy have the same sickness, it’s called denial and it’s probably going to kill you both.” 
– Nicole Kidman, as Dr. Claire Lewicki, in “Days of Thunder”

“Control is an illusion, you infantile egomaniac. Nobody knows what’s gonna happen next: not on a freeway, not in an airplane, not inside our own bodies and certainly not on a racetrack with 40 other infantile egomaniacs.  Nobody knows, and nobody controls anything – now you’ve gotten a glimpse of that, and you’re scared… God I hate you for this, you son of a b*tch.  You make me sound like a doctor.” 
– Nicole Kidman, as Dr. Claire Lewicki, in “Days of Thunder”

“[Cole Trickle]: This is tough.
[Dr. Claire Lewicki]: Examinations always are.
[Cole]: Why is that?         
[Claire]: Because I’m looking you over, and I may not like what I see.  That has to worry you.”
– Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in “Days of Thunder”

“It’s not having what you want – It’s wanting what you’ve got” 
– Sheryl Crow, “Soak Up the Sun”

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” 
– John Schafer

“I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.”   
– Gregg Popovich, NBA coach

“Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.”   
– Gregg Popovich, NBA coach

“When I heard about what had happened, your situation, the only thing I could think about was the four of them. I thought about how much they mean to me, about how bad it would hurt if… well if I was to lose them. Then I thought about a team, and a school, and a town that’s gotta be hurtin’ real bad.  And I thought, hell, maybe I could help.” 
– Matthew McConaughey, as coach Jack Legyel, in “We Are Marshall”

“Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.”
– Oscar Wilde, from A Woman of No Importance

“You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”
– G. Torriano, in  “Common Place of Italian Proverbs”

“Only a sith deals in absolutes.”
– Obi-Wan Kenobi, in “Revenge of the Sith”

“There are no atheists in foxholes.”
– The football team chaplain, “Any Given Sunday”

“You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you.  That’s, that’s part of life.  But you only learn that when you start losing stuff.  You find out that life is just a game of inches.  So is football.  Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small.  I mean, one half step too late or to early, you don’t quite make it.  One half second too slow or too fast, and you don’t quite catch it.  The inches we need are everywhere around us.  They are in every break of the game – every minute, every second.  On this team, we fight for that inch.  On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us, to pieces for that inch.  We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.  Cause we know when we add up all those inches, that’s going to make the f***ing difference between WINNING and LOSING, between LIVING and DYING.  I’ll tell you this – in any fight, it is the guy who is willing to die who is going to win that inch.  And I know if I am going to have any life anymore, it is because I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.  The six inches in front of your face.  Now I can’t make you do it.  You gotta look at the guy next to you.  Look into his eyes.  Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.  You are going to see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it, you are gonna do the same thing for him.  THAT’s a team, gentlemen.  And either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.  That’s football guys.  That’s all it is.  Now, whattaya gonna do?”   
– Al Pacino, “Any Given Sunday”

“Our brains are not meant to be a storage tool – they’re meant to be a processing tool!”
– Callan Faulkner, A.I. coach

“Trusting God means surrendering that which you love most and believing that God can do more with it than you can.”
– Pastor Ryan Madden, Calvary Christian Church

“I can’t make every decision for you. I don’t have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk.”   
– Gregg Popovich, NBA coach

“The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you’ve accomplished.”   
– Gregg Popovich, NBA coach

“Basketball’s a game of mistakes.”   
– Gregg Popovich, NBA coach

“[Sports journalist]:  You went for the green on 18 today – I’m just wondering if you think that cost you?
[Roy ‘Tin Cup’ McAvoy]:  I saved par, didn’t I?         
[Sports journalist]:  Just trying to understand what you were thinkin’ – you had the same shot yesterday on 18, without a headwind…   
[Roy]:  You don’t think I can knock it on from there?
[Sports journalist]:  Let’s just say it’s a low-percentage shot.   
[Roy]:  Well, so am I!  I mean, look at me, all right?! – what I’m wearin’.  I mean, I’m playing for Rio Grande Short-Haul Trucking, Briggs and Brown Sanitation, First State Bank of Salome, Woody’s Smokehouse… You think a… you think a guy like me bothers to worry about the percentages?”
– Kevin Costner, “Tin Cup”

“[Molly]:  That was incredible! That was the shot of the tournament!
[Roy ‘Tin Cup’ McAvoy]:  I just gave away the U.S. Open… The one time in my life I know the safe play to hit and I still…Sh*t, I still can’t make myself do it… My whole career, my whole life on the line – I just made a 12 on the last hole of the Open!   
[Molly]:  You sure did – it was the greatest 12 of all time!!  NO ONE’S gonna remember the Open 10 years from now – who won, who came in second… but they’ll remember your 12!!  My, God, Roy, it was… Well, it’s immortal! I am so proud of you!”   
–  Kevin Costner and Rene Russo, “Tin Cup”

“Ladies and gentlemen, I have understood in this case that the scales of justice cannot always be evenly weighed. And I must learn for once, to live with the imbalance.”
– Hercule Poirot, in Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express”

“I have seen the fracture of the human soul. So many broken lives, so much pain and anger giving way to the poison of deep grief, until one crime became many. I have always wanted to believe that man is rational and civilized. My very existence depends upon this hope, upon order and method and the little grey cells… but now perhaps I am asked… to listen instead… to my heart.” 
– Hercule Poirot, in Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express”

“We like to say, ‘Never let the plan get in the way of a better idea.’  We’ll be inspired, and that necessitates changes a lot.” 
– Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise, on their working dynamics while filming the Mission Impossible movie series

“I love making movies.  It’s not what I do.  It’s who I am.”
– Tom Cruise

“…the Sloane-Hunt relationship meant exploring “levels of ‘I don’t want you doing that- do I really not want you doing that?  Can we work together as you’re doing that, because you’re going to do it anyway?'””
– Angela Bassett, on the relationship between her character and Tom Cruise’s character in the Mission Impossible movie series

“The problem is, when you’re two people at the same time, one of them is bound to trip the other.”
– Agent Cowan, in “Now You See Me 2”

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” 
– Edmund Burke

“It Isn’t Enough To Do Nothing.” 
– Kayla Watts, in Jurassic World: Dominion

“Someday. That’s a dangerous word. It’s really just a code for ‘never’.” 
– Tom Cruise, in “Knight and Day”

“Science is for all of us, not some of us.” 
– Dr. Henry Loomis, in Jurassic World Rebirth

“Other people may talk sh*t about us, but we don’t have to do the job for them. Otherwise it becomes true.”   
– Reuben Delgado, in Jurassic World Rebirth

“Making change can be like overcoming gravity.”
– Christine Flaherty, PhD

“Pressure is a privilege.”
– Billie Jean King (referenced by many others, incl. Jaylen Williams of the OKC Thunder NBA team, on his mindset playing in the 2025 NBA Finals at such an early age)

” ‘Cause in a sky, ’cause in a sky full of stars
… I think I see you” 
– Coldplay (A Sky Full of Stars)

“[Nancy Wheeler, daughter]: I just… I wanted to be right. I wanted to be right so badly. 
[Karen Wheeler, mom]: And were you? 
[Nancy]: I thought so. But maybe I just… don’t want to admit that I’m wrong, because if I’m wrong, then…   
[Karen]: You’re what everyone thinks you are.
[Nancy]: Just a kid who has no idea what she’s doing. 
[Karen]: (sighs) It’s not easy out there, Nance. I know. People are always saying you can’t.  That you shouldn’t.  That you’re not… smart enough, not good enough. ( sighs ) This world, it… it beats you up again and again until eventually, I… Most people, they just… they just stop trying.   But you’re not like that.   You’re a fighter.  You always have been.”     
– Karen and Nancy Wheeler, in “Stranger Things”, season 3, episode 4 (“The Sauna Test”)

“When you try your best, but you don’t succeedWhen you get what you want, but not what you needWhen you feel so tired, but you can’t sleepStuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your faceWhen you lose something you can’t replaceWhen you love someone, but it goes to wasteCould it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you”
– Coldplay (Fix You)

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power”
– Robert Ingersoll (about President Abraham Lincoln)

“I was taught that the name on the front of your jersey was a lot more important than the name on the back.”
– Ryne Sandberg, former Chicago Cubs 2nd baseman and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee

Feelings. Jesus.
The truth is, for so long, I’d forgotten what those even were. I’ve been stuck in one place, in a cave, you might say. A deep, dark cave.
And then, I left some Eggos out in the woods, and you came into my life and… for the first time in a long time, I started to feel things again. I started to feel happy.
But, lately, I guess I’ve been feeling… distant from you. Like you’re… you’re pulling away from me or something. I miss playing board games every night, making triple-decker Eggo extravaganzas at sunrise, watching westerns together before we doze off.
But I know you’re getting older. Growing. Changing. And I guess… if I’m being really honest, that’s what scares me. I don’t want things to change. So, I think maybe that’s why I came in here, to try to maybe… stop that change. To turn back the clock. To make things go back to how they were.
But I know that’s naive. It’s just… not how life works. It’s moving. Always moving, whether you like it or not. And, yeah, sometimes it’s painful. Sometimes it’s sad. And sometimes… it’s surprising. Happy.
So, you know what? Keep on growing up, kid. Don’t let me stop you. Make mistakes, learn from ’em, and when life hurts you, because it will, remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you’re out of that cave. But, please, if you don’t mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches.
– Jim Hopper, in “Stranger Things” (season 3, episode 8)

[Ben Affleck:] “You know, sexual frustration is really hard.  But I may have a solution.
[Jason Bateman:] What?
[Affleck:] You need to take some Xanax.
[Bateman:] Xanax? Isn’t that for anxiety?
[Affleck:] It’s good for all psychological problems
in the DSM-IV.  Xanax basically just makes you feel good.  That’s why it works for everything.
I take it for the common head cold.
I think it would work great
for sexual frustration.
Want me to get you some?”
– Ben Affleck and Jason Bateman, in “Extract”

When we were kids in the backyardPlaying astronauts and rockstarsNo one told us to stop itCalled us unrealisticThen suddenly, you’re eighteenGo to college for your plan “B”What you want is too riskyLive for weekends and whiskey

We all got these big ideasOne day, they’re replaced with fearsHow did we get here?
Darlin’, don’t quit your daydreamIt’s your life that you’re makingIt ain’t big enough if it doesn’t scare the hell out of youIf it makes you nervousIt’s probably worth itWhy save it for sleep when you could be living your daydream?
– Lily Meola, “Daydream”

“You’re a man looking at the world through a keyhole.  You’ve spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole – to see more, to know more; and now on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can’t imagine, you reject the possibility.”
– The Ancient One, in “Dr. Strange”

“What mysteries lie beyond the reach of your senses?  At the root of existence, mind and matter meet.  Thoughts shape reality.  Who are you in this vast multiverse, Mr. Strange?”
– The Ancient One, in “Dr. Strange”

“We never lose our demons, Mordo – we only learn to live above them.”
– The Ancient One, in “Dr. Strange”

[Dr. Strange:] “People used to think I was funny.
[Wong:] Did they work for you?” (dead-pan face)
– Dr. Strange and Wong, in “Dr. Strange”

[The Ancient One:] “You cannot beat a river into submission – you have to surrender to its current and use its power as your own.
[Dr. Strange:] I control it by surrendering control? – it doesn’t make any sense!
[The Ancient One:] Not everything does; not everything has to.  Your intellect has taken you far in life, but it will take you no further.  Surrender, Stephen – silence your ego, and your power will rise.”
– The Ancient One, in “Dr. Strange”

[The Ancient One:] “You became a doctor to save one life above all others – your own.
[Dr. Strange:] Still seeing through me, are you?
[The Ancient One:] I see what I’ve always seen – your overinflated ego.  You want to go back to the delusion that you can control anything – even death – which no one can control, not even the great Dr. Stephen Strange.”
-The Ancient One, in “Dr. Strange”

[The Ancient One:] “I never saw your future – only its possibilities.  You have such a capacity for goodness.  You always excelled – but not because you crave success, but b/c of your fear of failure. 
[Dr. Strange:] It’s what made me a great doctor.
[The Ancient One:] It’s precisely what kept you from greatness.  Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.
[Dr. Strange:] Which is?
[The Ancient One:] It’s not about you.”
– Dr. Strange and The Ancient One, in “Dr. Strange”

[Dr. Strange:] “I’m not ready.
[The Ancient One:] No one ever is. We don’t get to choose our time.  Death is what gives life meaning.  To know your days are numbered, your time is short.”
– Dr. Strange and The Ancient One, in “Dr. Strange”

[Dr. Brenner:] “You’re going backwards. Eleven, look at me. Look at me. I know you’re frightened. You’re terribly frightened by what you’ve seen. But it’s this very fear that’s now holding you back. If you want…to succeed, you cannot hide from the truth, no matter how frightening it may be.
[Eleven:] I saw what I did. I am a monster.
[Dr. Brenner:] You speak of monsters, superheroes. That’s the stuff of myth and fairy tales. Reality, truth, is rarely so simple. People are not so easily defined. Only by facing all of ourselves, the good and the bad, can we become whole.
[Eleven:] What if I don’t wanna become whole?
[Brenner:] Then that is a choice. Your choice. The door is always open. This place is not a prison. This is [pointing to her head/brain].”
– Dr. Brenner and Eleven, in “Stranger Things” (season 4, episode 7)

[Jim Hopper:] “I bet Mikhail will be proud of his pops, at least.
[Antonov, the Russian soldier:] Mikhail? Mmm. No. I can’t do nothing right with him anymore, it seems. He will say, ‘Papa, I bet that bald American did most of the monster slaying.’
[Hopper:] He’s that age, huh?
[Antonov:] Yeah, he is that age. It is same for you, American? With your new daughter?
[Hopper:] The last time I was with El, she wanted just about nothing to do with me. I was just in her way, really. I think back to the way I was with my dad at that age. I was the same way. The exact same way. I think it must be hardwired into us to reject our fathers. So we can grow and move on. Become something of our own. I hope that’s what she’s doing. Coming into her own.”
– Hopper and Antonov, in “Stranger Things” (season 4, episode 7)

[Mike:] “I should’ve explained myself. Maybe Eleven would’ve taken me with her and things would be different, but… I didn’t… I didn’t know what to say. Sometimes I think it’s just scary to open up like that. To say how you really feel. Especially to people you care about the most. Because, what if… What if they don’t like the truth?”
– Mike, talking with Will, in “Stranger Things” (season 4, episode 5)

“The bad stuff [about yourself] is easier to believe – you ever noticed that?”
– Julia Roberts, in “Pretty Woman”

“You can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs.”
– Jack Nicholson, as the Joker, in “Batman”

“You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?  I always ask that of all my prey – I just like the sound of it.  Never rub another man’s rhubarb!”
– Jack Nicholson, as the Joker, in “Batman”

Books and Movies

Some Favorite Books:
-The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr (Clayborne Carson)
-The Five Fingers (Gayle Rivers, James Hudson)
-Blue Like Jazz (Donald Miller)
-A Generous Orthodoxy (Brian McLaren)
-When People are Big and God is Small (Ed Welch)
-Not All of Us are Saints (David Hilfiker, MD)
-More Than a Carpenter (Josh McDowell)
-Men and Women: The Journey of Spiritual Transformation (Richard Rohr – audio)

Some Favorite Movies:
-Hoosiers (Gene Hackman)
-The Hunt for Red October (Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin)
-Good Will Hunting (Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck)
-Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts)
-Spy Game (Robert Redford, Brad Pitt)
-The Town (Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm)
-The Dark Knight Trilogy (Christian Bale)
-Mission Impossible series (Tom Cruise)
-Rush Hour 1,2,3 (Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan)
-Twister (Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton)
-Midnight Run (Robert DeNiro, Charles Grodin)
-Armageddon (Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck)
-Airplane!, Airplane 2!
-Ant-Man; Ant-Man and the Wasp
-the Iron Man series (Robert Downey Jr)
-Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan
-Inside Man (Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster)
-The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (Denzel Washington, John Travolta)
-Tin Cup (Kevin Costner, Rene Russo)
-The Rock (Nicholas Cage, Sean Connery)
-Heat (Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro)
-National Treasure (Nicholas Cage)
-War Games (Matthew Broderick)
-Groundhog Day (Bill Murray)
-Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone)
-The Fugitive (Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones)
-Say Anything (John Cusack)
-Rain Man (Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman)
-Awakenings (Robert DeNiro, Robin Williams)

Leadership

Professional Practice Years:

  • Founder, owner of Personal Care Physicians
  • Founder, owner of Functional Medicine Consulting Group
  • Medical director of The Sante Center for Natural Healing
  • Co-Founder, owner, medical director of New England Longevity
  • President, Vice President, and Board of Directors member, International Society for Environmentally Acquired Illness (www.ISEAI.org)
  • COVID-19 Medical Coordinator: City of Newburyport School System
  • COVID-19 Medical Consultant: MetroRock Varsity and Junior Varsity Climbing Teams
  • COVID-19 Medical Consultant: 495 Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram car dealership
  • Anna Jaques Hospital Perinatal Committee
  • Planetree Committee, Anna Jaques Hospital
  • Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians Education Committee
  • Pregnancy Care Center of the Merrimack Valley Satellite Center Steering Committee
  • Founder, North Shore chapter of Safe Sitter, Inc.                                                                       

Tufts University Family Practice Residency Training Years: 

  • Academic Chief Resident, Tufts University Family Practice Residency
  • Assistant Editor, Resident and Student Voice (RSV) Section of American Family Physician Journal
  • Advisory Board Member, La Salud de Todos (distributing medical info in Spanish in California)
  • Committee Member, Maternal and Perinatal Welfare Committee, Massachusetts Medical Society
  • Massachusetts Medical Society Delegate, Annual American Medical Association Resident-Fellow Section Business Meeting
  • Committee Member, Lawrence Memorial Hospital Medical Executive Committee
  • Creator and Editor, Malden Family Health Center Newsletter
  • Staff Advisor, Tufts University School of Medicine Christian Medical and Dental Association
  • Membership Committee, Massachusetts Medical Society
  • Handheld Devices Tech Coordinator, Tufts University Family Practice Residency Program                                                                                                                                                

Indiana University School of Medicine Years:

  • Committee Member, Family Practice Dept. Curriculum Steering Committee, IUSOM
  • Co-editor, Iatrogenesis (IUSOM Student Monthly Newsletter)
  • Council Member, Medical Student Council, IUSOM
  • Leadership Committee & Newsletter Coordinator, Christian Medical and Dental Society, IUSOM
  • Task Force Member, Religion and Medicine Task Force, IUSOM
  • Co-Coordinator, Thanksgiving Food Drive, IUSOM
  • Publishing Committee Member, Freshman Survival Guide, IUSOM                                     

Cornell University Years:

  • Board Member, Academic Integrity Hearing Board for the College of A&LS, Cornell University
  • Leadership & Executive Committees, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Cornell University
  • President & Events Coordinator, Student Health Alliance at Cornell, Cornell University
  • Board Member, The University Assembly’s Board of University Health Services, Cornell University
  • Council Member, Gannett Health Center Advisory Council, Cornell University
  • Gannett Health Center Volunteer, Cornell University (student health center)                   

Other Community Involvement, Collectively Over the Years:

  • Speaker, National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine (NYLF/MD), on “Family Medicine” (twice)
  • Sharewood Project, Malden, MA – a free medical clinic organized by TUSOM medical students
  • “Tar Wars”, Malden, MA – Educating Elementary School Students on the Hazards of Smoking
  • Feeding and Clothing Boston’s Homeless – a weekly van ministry organized by a group of churches
  • Genessaret Free Clinic Volunteer, Indianapolis, IN – medical clinics held at homeless shelters & rehab centers
  • Convoy Of Hope Medical Team, Indianapolis, IN – event to support low-income communities
  • Spring Clean-Up, Indianapolis, IN – IUSOM-sponsored neighborhood help
  • Bethany Church member, Greenland, NH
  • Cambridge Community Fellowship Church member, Cambridge, MA
  • Co-Coordinator, 5th Year Anniversary Dinner Celebration for Cambridge Community Fellowship Church
  • Church home support group co-leader, Cambridge, MA
  • Youthfest Volunteer, Indianapolis, IN – outdoor concert promoting sexual abstinence among youth
  • Newburyport Racquet Club – USTA 4.0 Mens singles and doubles leagues
  • Newburyport Girls Basketball Association 6th and 7th grade team co-coach
  • Newburyport Boys Basketball Association 4th grade team co-coach

Media & Awards

  • Books: contributing author to 2 books
  • Journal articles: primary or senior author of 8 peer reviewed and published articles
  • Conference presentations: 20 national or state level presentations; multiple other smaller/community presentations.   Some more recent appearances: 
           >  Vibrant Longevity Summit presenter: 2024 
           >  Cellcore annual conference presenter: 2022, 2023 
           >  ISEAI annual conference presenter: 2024 (twice), 2022 (twice)   
           >  PIH Academy annual conference presenter: 2022   
           >  Great Plains Laboratory, Environmental Toxin Summit: 2021  
  • Other media: multiple video/podcast interviews and presentations; multiple web news, newspaper, and community articles; past cable television interview.  Some recent appearances
           > The Autoimmune Doc Podcast with Dr. Taylor Krick, Sept 2023    All the Pieces of the Puzzle
              https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728949/13577571
           > Root of the Matter Podcast with Rachaele Carver, DMD, June 2023  Exploring the Intersection
              of Oral Health and Chronic Illness
              https://www.buzzsprout.com/2109232/13082813
           > Lyme360, May 2021   A 3-Pronged Approach to Lyme Treatment
              https://lyme360.com/dr-mark-sus-unique-three-pronged-approach-to-treatment/   
           > GenesisTotalHealth, May 2023     Lyme Disease: Updates and Challenges
              in Diagnosis and Treatment
              https://fb.watch/leTyDA4r4m/
  • COVID-19 community leader: webinar series with Jessica Lasky-Su, DSc in spring ’20, as well as contracted medical consultant to the entire Newburyport school system, local sports team, and local large car dealership business
  • Awards:
    • Institute of Functional Medicine – Annual International Conference: Attendee Choice Poster Session Award

    • Leading Physicians of the World, Family Practice – state of Massachusetts
    • Guide to America’s Top Family Doctors (Consumers’ Research Council of America)
    • AAFP/Bristol Myers Squibb Award for Graduate Medical Education in Family Practice (formerly known as the Mead-Johnson Award for Graduate Medical Education in Family Practice: 10 awarded per year across the country from within all Family Medicine graduating residents)
    • Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Resident Teacher’s Award
    • Massachusetts Academy of Family Practice Family Medicine Educators’ Award
    • Scholarship Award: 24th Annual Conference on Patient Education (AAFP, STFM)
    • Scholarship Award: American Pain Society’s “Essentials of Pain Management: Principles and Practice” Conference
    • Runner-Up: AAFP Scientific Assembly Research, Category II (two consecutive years)
    • Grand Prize: Indiana Academy of Family Physicians Research Day, Medical Student Category
    • Scholarship Award: AAFP National Congress of Family Practice Residents and Student Members
  • Dean’s Scholar: Cornell University
  • Dean’s List: Cornell University

Values

Ξ  The 4 Strongest, Summary Descriptors of Mark Su, MD (from the video above):
Authentic – “organic”:                                                                                                                                                             Derived from natural root origins; home-grown; the opposite of pretense; not fabricated
Ambitious – “driven”:                                                                                                                                                               Continually in motion; on a perpetual quest; never settling
Narrator – “story teller”:                                                                                                                                                         Seeking to understand, interpret, and narrate life’s experiences,                                                                           esp. helping to explain the “why” in patients’ chronic condition health journeys
Empath – “highly emotionally aware”:                                                                                                                               Inherently embedded with an acute sensitivity towards others’ feelings, thoughts and                                 energies, frequently helping to create stronger connections when interacting with others

∴ Core Values:  what does Mark Su, MD stand for most above all else?
– RESPECT
– Justice
– Equality
– Work ethic
– Advocating for those marginalized in society

Ω Common Feedback: what do others say about Mark Su, MD?
– Trustworthy
– Comforting, reassuring
– Therapeutic, healer
– Thorough
– Thoughtful
– Non-judgmental
– Easy going

¥ Insider’s Info: a deeper look at who is Mark Su, MD?
– Communications: holds great value in understanding others, and detests being misunderstood
– Inquisitive/curious: constantly asking the question, “why?” and “how?”
– Many perspectives to stories: highly important to gather as accurate of info as possible; furthermore, such info is usually only one party’s interpretation of an experience
– Critical analysis thinker: detail oriented
– Leading by example: I intend to practice what I preach, or don’t preach it
– Type A personality, but longing to be more type B
– Historically an INFJ by Myers & Briggs personality testing 
– Both meaningfully left and right brained, simultaneously
– Others-serving and others-giving, to a fault
– Compromising, reconciling
– “An old soul” for his given age
– Highly engaging with others in smaller settings (1-2 other people), but more wallflower-like in larger settings: a wide dichotomy of perceived vulnerability
– Measured
– Seeks continuous personal growth
– Grounded, humble, down to earth
– Lover of behavioral health – a conviction that this is vital to understanding decision-making processes for any given person (the “why”)
– Creator of safe places for patients to be vulnerable, to share, and to engage 

Formal Education

  • Tufts University Family Practice Residency – Boston, MA
  • Indiana University School of Medicine – Indianapolis, IN
  • Cornell University – Ithaca, NY
  • High School Valedictorian – Indianapolis, IN