Susan K. Frazier PhD, RN, FAHA

Susan Frazier earned a BSN, MS, and Ph.D. in nursing from Ohio State University. She practiced as a certified critical care nurse (CCRN) for nearly 20 years prior to earning her graduate degrees. During this time, she was instrumental in establishing and managing the intensive care unit of a local hospital. During her doctoral education, she served as a research associate for an NINR-funded study focused on the cardiovascular responses to endotracheal suctioning and taught a graduate-level physiology course for nurse practitioner students. She earned a cognate minor in cardiopulmonary physiology. Dr. Frazier joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky in the fall of 2006 as an associate professor and a co-director for the RICH Heart Program.