Background
Susan started her nursing career after graduating from nursing school in 2004 and working in the critical care unit in the surgical and medical ICU at Northridge Hospital. After several years at Northridge Hospital, she became a traveling RN working in several of Los Angeles’s best hospitals, including Cedar Sinai, Kaiser West L.A. Hospital, and Huntington Hospital. In 2008 she moved to Orange County and began working at Mission Hospital and the University of California Irvine where she began special training for wound care in addition to the trauma unit while in critical care at UCI Medical Center. She continued to care for burn victims in the burn ICU and found an interest in dermatology care. Susan also found time in Orange County to travel to Peru, South America, and Cambodia for several Medical Missions with the Hand of Hope Organization.
EDUCATION
Susan graduated from The College of Medical Aesthetics in 2008, while there she received special certifications in Botox and derma fillers, lasers and phototherapy, as well as Biostimulators. In 2011, Susan began her career in aesthetic medicine and plastic surgery at Athenix Microbody Contouring in Irvine, California. She continued to get her advanced aesthetic education along side the plastic surgeons going to many workshops, courses, training, and conferences. In her most recent experience with Esthetica of San Diego and Del Mar Cosmetic Center, she helped deliver world-class aesthetic results as both an aesthetic RN and Operating Room RN.
PERSONAL LIFE
She moved to Colorado in 2021 and started work at Poudre Valley Hospital as a Pre-Op/Recovery Nurse, while she loved the people and the UC Health system, she longed to be doing Aesthetic Medicine again.
So she began her Aesthetic Career at Ten Spa in Loveland in 2022, shortly after finding out about Premier she left there and moved over to the Luxury Med Spa in Fort Collins, where she is now on staff
Susan loves the science and the results of Aesthetic Medicine, which drives her to continually practice good medicine. She often states “Looking good, starts with Feeling Good,” and “Love it, Keep it, Hate it, Change it.”