Susanne has had over 40 years of experience in healthcare. Her experience has been in point of care nursing and the pharmaceutical industry. She has been employed by several clinical research organizations as a senior pharmacovigilance case manager and quality reviewer in clinical trials, post marketing and retrospective non investigational study reviews. She is also a clinical research associate, having receiving her CRA certificate from the University of North Carolina in 2006. Previously she had been a school nurse, worked in hemodialysis clinics and as a per-diem recovery and scrub nurse. She began her career as a floor nurse and then became a charge nurse of a pre- and post-operative unit at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in the early 1980’s and was a nurse manager of the inpatient hemodialysis unit at Duke hospital in the 1980’s.  

Susanne previously served on the travel advisory committee for the School of Social Sciences of Loyola University New Orleans and for six years on the Duke University Nursing School Advisory Board.

She is currently serving on the advisory board of Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions of the University of North Alabama and the advisory board of Loyola University of New Orleans College of Nursing and Health.

She received an A.D.N. from Forsyth Technical College in 1978, a B.S.N. of Nursing from The University of North Alabama in 2006 and an M.S.N from Loyola University New Orleans in 2009.