Susan graduated with an Associates of Science Degree in Dental Hygiene from Santa Rosa Junior College. She Earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Health Management from University of San Francisco. She received a Master's in Dental Hygiene from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and her Dental Hygiene in Alternative Practice from Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific.  With over thirty years of clinical dental experience, Susan has been teaching with both first and second year dental hygiene students since 2009.