Suzanne Harrison, MD, FAAFP, FAMWA

Past President 2018 – 2019

Professor and Education Director, Family Medicine
Department of Family Medicine & Rural Health
Florida State University College of Medicine

Dr. Suzanne Harrison is the Education Director for Family Medicine. In this role, she develops, implements and evaluates the family medicine curriculum, including the required Family Medicine Clerkship during Year Three and Advanced Family Medicine Clerkship in Year Four. In addition, she serves as a small-group facilitator in the Doctoring courses, and provides occasional lectures for Doctoring, Medicine & Behavior, and the Honors Medical Seminar. She also teaches in the Clinical Learning Center for both Doctoring 1 and Doctoring 2. Dr. Harrison provides patient care and precepts medical students at Jefferson County Health Department, Neighborhood Health Services and Refuge House. Dr. Harrison has developed a free clinic at Refuge House in Tallahassee. She is the faculty advisor for the FSU chapter of AMWA.

Prior to joining the FSU College of Medicine in April 2005, Dr. Harrison was a faculty member at the Tallahassee Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program. She graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and completed her family medicine residency at Valley Medical Center, an affiliate of the University of Washington Family Medicine Residency Network. Following her training, Dr. Harrison spent 10 years in Walla Walla, Wash., practicing the full spectrum of family medicine, including obstetrics. During that time she served as department chair of pediatrics and obstetrics at St. Mary Medical Center. Dr. Harrison was involved in clinical teaching while in private practice through the University of Washington MEDEX program and Whitworth College.