Dr Susan Hart

Dr Susan Hart has over 25 years’ experience as an Accredited Practising Dietitian and specialises in the treatment and support of people experiencing eating disorders across all presentations.

She has worked in diverse settings—community and outpatient programs, in public and private inpatient services—and has established eating disorders services within the public health system. For 8 years she worked as the Eating Disorder Coordinator for St Vincent’s Health Network. She is currently the co-director of ENRG (the Eating Disorder and Nutrition Research Group) at Western Sydney University and is passionate about research into best practice nutrition management strategies for people with eating disorders.

Her work focuses on developing skills, offering compassionate support, and identifying both barriers and facilitators to lasting change. She is dedicated to a strengths-based approach to recovery and ensuring that all people seeking care for eating disorders can access what they need. She also has extensive experience supporting individuals health conditions such as diabetes to manage day to day eating challenges and improve their relationship with food.

In addition to her eating disorder expertise, she has a background in women’s health and breast cancer survivorship, having written “Healthy Living after Breast Cancer” inspired by her personal journey through breast cancer in 2011.