Susan E. White, MD

Biography

Susan White, M.D. is the Program Director of the Physician Assistant (PA) Program at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She joined PA program in 2013 as the Director of Didactic Curriculum as one of the founding faculty and became program director in 2019.

She has served on several national committees for the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) most recently serving as the Chair of the Exam Development Board for Women’s Health, Pediatrics and Psychiatry and now serves as an item writer. Her scholarship has focused on PA education and curriculum development in the areas of Obstetrics and Gynecology, social determinants of health and interprofessional education. Her novel Prenatal Care Workshop is open source for medical educators (available at https://www.apaog.org/Prenatal-Care-Workshop).

She was a 2014-2015 Gold Humanism Scholar at the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators where she developed a novel longitudinal integrated clerkship for PA students with a colleague from Cambridge Health Alliance. From 2016- 20221 she was a co-investigator on a 5-year primary care transformation grant funded by HRSA in collaboration with the BUSM Department of Family Medicine which developed a novel community heath center based interprofessional care clinic.

In 2007 she became a full-time faculty member and Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences where she served as the Program Director of the School of Physician Assistant Studies – Manchester/Worcester for three years. In 2009, she received the Teacher of the Year Award and in 2010 won the Faculty Research and Scholarship Award.

Dr. White received her B.A. in Biology and Environmental Science from Wesleyan University and her M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine. Her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology was completed at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. She is board certified and a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She practices gynecology at Boston Medical Center, having practiced previously in Nashua, New Hampshire.