Susan P. Etheridge, MD

Susan Etheridge, MD is a pediatric cardiologist and an electrophysiologist. She has clinical and research interests involving young patients with channelopathies and other conditions with a risk of sudden death. She is also interested in Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.

Dr. Etheridge has been a part of many multicenter research studies involving children and young adults with arrhythmia issues, and is a recipient of the Helen Taussig Lifetime Achievement Award through the American Academy of Pediatrics. Patients with inherited arrhythmias are her clinical and research focus.

Dr. Etheridge travels to Alaska periodically to see pediatric electrophysiology patients and adult congenital heart disease patients, and is committed to providing excellent care to this population. Congenital heart disease procedures and surgeries cannot be done in Alaska and patients need to travel for proper care.

Dr. Etheridge is the vice president of the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Foundation and is a past chair of the American Board of Pediatrics Sub-Board of Pediatric Cardiology. She is a present member of the American College of Cardiology Adult Congenital and Pediatric Cardiology Committee and chair the Education Committee and a past member of the Heart Rhythm Society Communications Committee. She is presently on the Board of Trustees of the Heart Rhythm Society. In addition, she is an associate editor for the journal Europace.