Susan White, M.D. is the Director of Didactic Curriculum and responsible for overseeing the first year of the PA curriculum. She has served on several national committees for the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), currently serves as the Chair of the Exam Development Board for Women’s Health, Pediatrics and Psychiatry. She has presented posters, presentations and workshops at the PAEA Annual Education Forum focusing on curriculum in the social determinants of health, women’s health, and the use of distance education. 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. She is a co-investigator on a 5-year primary care transformation grant funded by HRSA in collaboration with the BUSM Department of Family Medicine.

In 2007 she became a full-time faculty member and Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences where she has served as the Program Director of the School of Physician Assistant Studies – Manchester/Worcester for three years. In 2009, she received the MCPHS University Division of Health Sciences Teacher of the Year Award and in 2010 won the Faculty Research and Scholarship Award at MCPHS University for a paper entitled “The effects of synchronized distance education on academic achievement in a physician assistant program.” Goldsmith CW, Miller KE, Lee L, Moreau T, White S, Massey SL. (2009) J Physician Assist Educ, 20, 17-21.

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.