Jose Suarez, MD, was born in Cuba and immigrated to the United States in 1995. He completed his residency program in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in affiliation with Jersey City Medical Center in 2002 and was later a fellow in Medical Oncology at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans.

Following training, Dr. Suarez treated patients in a thriving oncology practice in Miami for five years. In September of 2009, he accepted an invitation to join Midnight Sun Oncology and relocated his wife and three young children to the Mat-Su Valley where they have been happily exploring Alaska ever since.