Susan M. Lark, M.D., Biography

June 14, 2004

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Susan M. Lark, M.D., Biography

Dr. Susan Lark is one of the foremost authorities

in the fields of clinical nutrition and preventive medicine. A graduate

of Northwestern University Medical School, she served on the clinical

faculty of Stanford University Medical School from 1981 to 1983,

and taught in Stanford’s Primary Care Associate Program in the Division

of Family and Community Medicine from 1991 to 2002. She is a distinguished

clinician, author, lecturer and innovative product developer. Her

clinical practice has spanned more than 28 years.

Dr. Lark has lectured extensively throughout

the United States on topics in preventive medicine. She pioneered

the use of self-care treatments such as diet, nutrition, exercise

and stress management techniques in the field of women’s health,

which she has presented in a nine-book series that includes the

Premenstrual Syndrome Self Help Book, the Menopause Self

Help Book and Anxiety and Stress, among others. With

her husband, James A. Richards, MBA, she has also co-authored The

Chemistry of Success: Six Secrets of Peak Performance.

Dr. Lark is one of the most widely referenced

physicians on the Internet. She has been a consultant to major corporations,

including the Kellogg Company and Weider Nutrition International,

and was a spokesperson in 2002 for The Gillette Company Women’s

Cancer Connection. She has appeared on numerous radio and television

shows, and has been featured in magazines and newspapers including:

Reader’s Digest, McCall’s, Better Homes & Gardens,

New Woman, Mademoiselle, Harper’s Bazaar, Redbook,

Seventeen, Shape, Great Life, The New York

Times, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle,

Woman’s World, and First for Women. Her goal is to empower women

to create thriving good health. Drawing on more than 28 years of

personal research and professional success at creating peak health

for women, Dr. Lark provides unique, scientific-based, safe and

effective complementary therapies to help women maintain vital and

well-balanced lifestyles.