Susanne Benseler MD, MSc, PhD

Dr. Susa Benseler is a Staff Rheumatologist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Health Policy Management & Evaluation (HPME), University of Toronto. She is an Associate Scientist in the Child Health and Evaluative Sciences (CHES) Program at The SickKids Research Institute. Dr. Benseler graduated from Medical School in Freiburg/Germany and completed a PhD thesis focusing on the immunopathology of scleroderma in George Wick’s lab in Innsbruck/Austria. She trained in Pediatrics in Freiburg and Bonn, Germany, focusing on Pediatric Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine and Rheumatology.

After completing a Clinical Fellowship in the Division of Rheumatology at SickKids (2001-2003) and a research fellowship in Pediatric Lupus funded by the Geoff-Carr-Lupus Fellowship Award, she joined SickKids on staff in 2005. She completed a Clinical Epidemiology Masters program in HPME at the University of Toronto and subsequently joined the HPME faculty. Dr. Benseler is a staff physician in the Division of Rheumatology and hold a cross-appointment to Paediatric Emergency Medicine. In Rheumatology, she previously served as Clinical Director and is currently the Chair of the Research Council. She established the first Childhood Central Nervous System (CNS) Vasculitis and Inflammatory Brain Diseases Program and recently initiated the Interdisciplinary Childhood Systemic Vasculitis Initiative and Clinic at SickKids.