Susan Hertzberg is an Emergency Physician with over 25 years’ experience in Emergency Medicine. She is also a Senior Consultant Medical Advisor at Avant Mutual, Australia’s largest Medical Defence Organisation. She is a conjoint senior lecturer at UNSW and a senior staff specialist at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and has been extensively involved in training junior doctors.

She been a member on various committees at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine as well as Local Health District and local hospital committees. She is a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the Southeast LHD

Susan holds a Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery UNSW, a Masters of Health Law, USYD, a Masters of Bioethics, USYD and is a Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Having worked in the medicolegal environment of Avant Mutual, Susan has a unique insight into medical error, medical misadventure and the impact this has on doctors, patients and their families and she is passionate about sharing this insight to make practicing medicine safer for consumers and providers.