Susan McIver

Susan McIver was born in Hutchinson, Kansas and moved with her family to Southern California as a small child. After graduating from the University of California at Riverside, she earned a PhD at Washington State University. She was a professor at the University of Toronto with appointments to the Faculty of Medicine and a department chair at the University of Guelph. Subsequently, she served as a community coroner in British Columbia. Susan is the author of hundreds of scientific publications...See more

Susan McIver was born in Hutchinson, Kansas and moved with her family to Southern California as a small child. After graduating from the University of California at Riverside, she earned a PhD at Washington State University. She was a professor at the University of Toronto with appointments to the Faculty of Medicine and a department chair at the University of Guelph. Subsequently, she served as a community coroner in British Columbia. Susan is the author of hundreds of scientific publications and articles for the popular press. She has also written two books on patient safety-Medical Nightmares: The Human Face of Errors and with Robin Wyndham of After the Error: Speaking Out About Patient Safety, which won a gold medal in health and medicine presented by the Independent Publisher Book Awards. The unsolved murder of her great uncle Ralph Snair has been a continuing mystery throughout her adult life. See less