Susan L. Samson, M.D., Ph.D.

Susan L. Samson, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC, FACE, is Professor of Medicine and Neurologic Surgery and Chair of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. She is originally from Canada and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Canada in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. She trained in Endocrinology at Baylor College of Medicine/MD Anderson Cancer Center where she was the Co-director of the Baylor St. Luke's Pituitary Center and the Endocrinology Fellowship Director, having trained more than 60 Endocrinology fellows during her time as Associate Program Director and Program Director. She was awarded the Fulbright and Jaworski L.L.P. Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Evaluation, the Rising Star Award, and Woman of Excellence Award during her time at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Samson has served as site principal investigator as well as an international steering chair for clinical trials for patients with pituitary disorders including acromegaly and Cushing's disease and is a co-author on consensus documents for the diagnosis and management of pituitary disorders including for acromegaly, growth hormone deficiency, and Cushing's syndrome. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journal Pituitary and Endocrine Today. She also is the co-editor (with Dr. Ioachimescu) of the book Pituitary Disorders Throughout the Lifecycle (Springer Nature 2022).

She is the 2024 President of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology and has served on numerous AACE committees including as Chair of Endocrine University (2020) and the AACE Annual Meeting (Los Angeles 2019). She also has served nationally as Council member and Secretary/Treasurer of the American Program Directors of Endocrinology and Metabolism (APDEM) and as a taskforce member for the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship Milestones 2.0) and the American Board of Internal Medicine (Self-Assessment Committee, Item Writing Task Force, and now Chair of the Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment Approval Committee for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism).