Senior Medical Director

Susan Gilchrist, MD, MS

Susan Gilchrist, MD, MS

Susan Gilchrist, MD, is a Medical Director of CVMER (cardiovascular, metabolic, endocrine and renal) at Fortrea. Dr. Gilchrist is a board-certified cardiologist with more than 15 years of experience treating cardiovascular patients and has formally trained in epidemiology and clinical trial design. As a clinician scientist, she has extensive experience in cardiovascular cohort and clinical trial development and execution and has contributed to over 100 peer-reviewed publications in cardiovascular clinical research.

Dr. Gilchrist has an MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA) and completed a cardiology fellowship at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and an internal medicine residency program at UTHSCSA. She earned an MS in Epidemiology and Clinical Research from Wake Forest University Graduate School and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin.