Dr. Hayashi is committed to increasing health care access and eliminating health disparities in urban medically vulnerable communities by building community capacity and developing community/academic partnerships. Dr. Hayashi routinely lectures on community-oriented primary care and on immigrant and refugee health. He also works with public health organizations by conducting medical examinations for torture survivors and persons seeking asylum with Physicians for Human Rights and Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, International. His current work includes using Geographic Information systems to assist community health centers improve access and better allocate resources. He is also currently assisting the D.C. Department of Health in creating a Consumer Report Card for Medicaid recipients. Dr. Hayashi is a family physician at the Upper Cardozo Health Center (Unity Health Care, Inc.) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Hayashi graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Studio Art. He received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1997, and completed his family medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco in 2000. He received his MPH at Harvard School of Public Health in 2001 as a CFHU Fellow.