Yousef Zarbalian, MD

Dr. Yousef Zarbalian, known to patients as Dr. Z, practices rheumatology at East-West Rheumatology and Direct Primary Care in Vienna. He was drawn to medicine by a natural empathy for people in pain and a genuine love of learning, and that combination carried him through internal medicine residency and into rheumatology subspecialty training.

After three years treating patients in a rheumatology clinic, he noticed how many of them continued to struggle even with the best that conventional western medicine had to offer, and that observation pushed him to broaden his approach to include holistic care. In 2019 he took the next step and built a practice around that broader vision, bringing together his training in immunology and pharmacology with herbalism and medical acupuncture so his community could access all of it in one place.