Susan Whitley

Susan Whitley is currently serving as Psychiatry Faculty at Mountain Area Health Education Center since September 2023. With a longstanding career in psychiatry, Whitley holds the position of Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center since 2010. Previous roles include Interim Chief of Behavioral Health Services and Director of Integrated Ambulatory Behavioral Health Services at NYC Health + Hospitals from July 2008 to September 2023, and Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and General Internal Medicine at New York University from 2008 to 2010. Whitley's earlier experience includes serving as an Attending Physician and Medical Director in the Division of Substance Abuse at Albert Einstein College of Medicine from July 2001 to June 2008, along with completing an Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center from 1996 to 2001. Whitley earned an MD in Medicine from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and a BS in Biology from the University of Michigan.