Susan Seo
Director, Antibiotic Management Program & Clinical Member, Infectious Disease Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Metro Region: New York, NY
Member Since: 2024
Dr. Susan K. Seo is an Infectious Disease (ID) physician and Clinical Member in the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, NY. Dr. Seo trained in Internal Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard-affiliated program, where she became interested in the diagnosis and management of infectious complications in cancer patients. This led to the completion of ID fellowship training at MSK. She stayed with MSK’s ID service to be the founding director of the hospital’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, which has been a local and national role model for how to help clinicians improve patients’ health and minimize harms by improving antibiotic prescribing in immunocompromised patients. Notable achievements included being a writing group member of the 2016 Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) guidelines for implementing an antibiotic stewardship program and MSK’s designation as an IDSA Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence. In addition, she has served on several national committees with IDSA, SHEA, and other organizations, and is a member of the NCCN Panel on the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer-Related Infections. Dr. Seo is an author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and book chapters and has also trained ID clinicians who have gone on to successful careers in academia, public health, industry, and private practice.