Susan Biffl MPT, MD

Dr. Susan Biffl is a rehabilitation medicine specialist at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and an assistant professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Biffl was a pediatric physical therapist for ten years before deciding to attend medical school at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She went on to complete a combined pediatrics and physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine residency and fellowship at the same institution. She was an attending physician at the Children's Hospital of Colorado and Denver Health and Hospitals for six years before she developed a practice in Hawaii.

Dr Biffl is board-certified in pediatrics, physical medicine, and rehabilitation, as well as pediatric rehabilitation medicine and brain injury medicine. She also holds a STEP certification from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR) in concussion management. She serves on the Communications Committee for the American Academy of  Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine as a committee member for the Evidence, Quality, and Performance Committee for AAPMR and serves on the board of the SanDiego Brain Injury Foundation.

Biffl enjoys providing care to children with all types of rehabilitation needs, with an emphasis on cerebral palsy and spasticity management, brain injury, including complex concussion, spinal cord injury, torticollis, brachial plexus injury, and Rett syndrome, as part of their respective multidisciplinary teams and neuro-oncology rehab care. She provides consultative services for adolescent victims of trauma in the Scripps Level 1 Trauma Centers.