Susanne graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy in 1981. She earned her Master of Health Sciences degree at the University of Indianapolis in 2010 and completed her doctorate in occupational therapy at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions in 2016.
Susanne has been a Certified Hand Therapist (CHT) since 1992 and a charter member of the ASHT since 1988. She serves on the Education Division of the American Society of Hand Therapists. She is the co-chair of the Work and Industry SIS for the Illinois Occupational Therapy Association.
Susanne is an Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at Midwestern University and for over 15 years has been teaching courses such as kinesiology, orthotics, upper extremity rehabilitation, physical agent modalities, anatomy along with administration, leadership and program development. She has presented continuing education courses on a variety of topics related to upper extremity rehabilitation locally and internationally. Her clinical experience is in outpatient orthopedics in the western suburbs of Chicago.
