Susan Kendig JD, WHNP-BC, FAANP

Women’s Health Integration Specialist, St. Mary’s Hospital

Susan Kendig, JD, WHNP-BC, FAANP, is a board-certified women’s health nurse practitioner and attorney with over four decades of experience as a health care provider, educator, and strategist. Her work is grounded in a strong background at the intersection of clinical practice, policy, and public health. Currently, Sue is a Women’s Health Integration Specialist and Co-PI of the Missouri Collaboration for Clinical Community Integration in Maternal Health (MO C3), with SSM Health Women’s Services, St. Louis, MO, is an adjunct professor in the Saint Louis University, School of Public Health and Social Justice, Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Science and Practice, and serves as Director of WHNP Practice and Policy, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH). Prior to joining SSM Health, Sue was a teaching professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she led the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner program for almost two decades. Sue is a member of the Women’s Preventive Services (WPSI) Advisory Panel, which guides a HRSA funded collaborative interdisciplinary effort to develop, review, and disseminate recommendations for women’s preventive health care services. Active with the Alliance for Innovation in Maternal Health (AIM) national team, she co-led development of maternal safety bundles related to mental health, postpartum and women’s health. She is committed to the concept of clinical and community integration as a tool to improve health outcomes, and to optimize quality in health care service delivery. To this end, she has provided technical assistance to integrated primary care medical home/behavioral health home and other value-based care initiatives, and collective impact maternal and infant mortality reduction efforts in urban and rural communities.