SUSAN ADELMAN

Susan Hershberg Adelman, MD is an author, a paediatric surgeon and an artist. Born in Rochester, New York, she went to the University of Michigan to study geology. When she married a law student, Martin Adelman, she changed to pre-med, completing the classes while teaching geology at Wayne State University (WSU) and studying in the WSU art school. She graduated from the Wayne State University School of Medicine, secured an internship and surgery residency at Henry Ford Hospital, and a paediatric surgery fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
She was editor of the Detroit Medical News for seventeen years and wrote a monthly column in AMNews for ten years. Dr Adelman continues to paint, sculpt both marble and wood, and she has become a jeweller and silversmith, as seen on www.doctoradelman.com. She has travelled all over the world, collecting textiles, gemstones, art objects and beads.
Dr Adelman speaks French, Arabic and Hebrew and reads several other languages.