Susan Lynn Donner

Education and Training

  • Undergraduate Education: Harvard-Radcliffe College, 1985

  • Medical Degree: M.D., UCSF, 1991

  • Residency: UCLA NPI, 1991–1995

  • Fellowship: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Cedars-Sinai Thalians, 1995–1997

  • Psychoanalytic Training: Child, Adolescent and Adult, NCP, 1999–2010

Practice Information

  • Practice Style: Solo private practice

  • Theoretical Orientation: Infant, child, adolescent and adult psychiatry and psychoanalysis (eclectic)

  • Patient Types: Individuals, families, children, adolescents, adults

  • Diagnostic Interests: ADHD, adoption, autism, anxiety disorders, learning disabilities, mood disorders, family systems, PTSD and dissociation, psychosomatic disorders

Teaching and Supervision

  • Current Teaching Position: Associate Clinical Professor (Voluntary) in the Child/Adolescent Fellowship, providing teaching and supervision

  • Residents Supervised: Rowther; Yu; Hagen; Slavin; Raphel; Youssef; Shaddox; Sackey; Venkatraman; Khan; Niazi; Smith

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