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Dr. Susan

Dr. Susan is boarded in Integrative Medicine and in Psychiatry, is a certified IFM practitioner and certified in the American Academy of  Antiaging Medicine.  She works at the University of California, San Francisco and is on the Psychiatry Consultant Registry (UK).  She has Masters degrees in engineering from MIT and Stanford and a Masters in Public Health from Loma Linda Medical Center. Based between San Francisco and Bloomsbury (London), she is the president of the cutting edge, Silicon Valley Health Institute (SVHI), has worked in ten countries and studied many healing modalities.   Previously, she worked for the NHS in the UK,  was an assistant professor at INSEAD (European School for Business Administration), and was a foreign service officer managing alternative energy projects in Asia  She is also a film-maker with two multi award winning films on health.  Her interests include medicine, economics, spirituality and making the world a better place.

President Silicon Valley Health Institute Miguel Toribio-Mateas

“Susan is an excellent healthcare professional and expert in functional and metabolic medicine with one of the most multidisciplinary backgrounds I’ve ever encountered. I’ve had the honour of working with her at a couple of events and she is both a fantastic guest speaker and a host.”


Dr. Susan’s Films