Meet Dr. Mark Takesuye

Dr. Mark Takesuye (Dr. Mark) is a native to Southern California. He was born an only child in Long Beach, and was socialized in sports, taiko drumming, and Boy Scouts, where he became a terrible troublemaker (he’s been better since high school). He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, and completed his optometry degree in Orange County at the Southern California College of Optometry. Immediately after graduating, he decided to pursue an optometric residency through the Southern College of Optometry in St. Joseph, Michigan at WOW Vision Therapy. Being nearby, he visited friends in Chicago on the residency weekends, and grew to love the city. Dr. Mark evenutally finished the residency, had a big Chicago “good-bye” party, and moved back to Los Angeles, California to work in Vision Therapy for a year. After dealing with hours upon hours of LA traffic, he decided to move, and where not better than Chicago, IL?

Since moving back to Chicago, Dr. Mark has been busy with North Park Family Vision, and has maintained several hobbies. He likes to cook, sometimes with friends to have dinner parties. While in LA, he had to wait after work for traffic to die down, and he found an archery range nearby, shooting for about 15 hours a week. Luckily he moved right next to an archery range, and luckily he brought all of his equipment, so he shoots regularly. One of his favorite hobbies was surfing, but since the waves are not quite the same in Montrose Beach as they are in San Diego, he is considering learning sailing or crew. If you have any hobbies for Dr. Mark to take on, please for God’s sake, let him know.

He has a passion for treating and managing eye diseases in children. Starting with a vision therapy internship in San Diego, he learned that many children with learning disabilities were highly linked with vision, and treated through visual means. This drove him to enter optometry school and residency in vision therapy. He worked with and learned from some of the greatest minds in the field, and helped open several vision therapy offices in Chicago. From vision therapy, Dr. Mark was led to a similar field that has a much more prevalent presence - childhood nearsightedness, or myopia. He spent many hours learning about the causes of why children are becoming more nearsighted, and the implications of long-term disease associated with it. The office has invested in the gold standard of equipment to treat and manage myopia, and Dr. Mark is constantly keeping up with new studies and products for the best treatment for his patients. With increased use of computers and digital devices in children, this epidemic is snowballing forward, with an expected 50% more children to become myopic in 2030 than what has been documented in the past 30 years.