Susan Johnson, M.D.
I was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Claremont, California. I graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota with a major in Biology. I attended medical school at Northwestern University and completed a three-year pediatric residency at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. I then moved to San Francisco in 1987 to complete a three-year fellowship training in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. I worked for seven years as the Physician consultant at the School Health Center in San Francisco evaluating hundreds of children from the public elementary and middle schools with learning and behavioral difficulties.
The birth of my son and his challenges with sensory-motor integration and learning led me to Waldorf education and I became a certified Waldorf teacher through the San Francisco Waldorf Teacher Training Program in 1999. I then traveled to Arlesheim, Switzerland to begin my studies in Anthroposophical Medicine at the Lukas Klinik. I now work as a behavioral and developmental pediatrician for Waldorf schools, write parent newsletters about preventative health, and give community lectures. I have a private practice in Behavioral and Developmental pediatrics at Raphael House where I see children two through 18 years of age with their parents for developmental, behavioral and learning concerns. I strive to bring the best of both traditional and complementary forms of medical therapies.
[Learn more about Susan's work by visiting the website of Raphael House].
