Susan Wilcox, MD, FACEP, FCCM, FAAEM attended medical school at Washington University School of Medicine and trained in Emergency Medicine in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, graduating in 2008. After residency, she completed an Anesthesia Critical Care fellowship at MGH. From 2009 to 2015, she has divided her time between the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Units, including the Surgical ICU at MGH and the multidisciplinary ICU at North Shore Medical Center. In 2015, she moved to the Medical University of South Carolina, where she attended in the Medical ICU, the ED, and served as the medical director for the inpatient code team and the ground critical care transport team.

In July 2017, she rejoined the faculty of MGH as the inaugural Chief of the Division of Critical Care in the Department of Emergency Medicine, dividing her clinical time between the Emergency Department and the Heart Center ICU. She was appointed the Associate Chief Medical Office of Boston MedFlight in 2018. Her research interests are mechanical ventilation outside the ICU and the emergency care of patients with pulmonary hypertension. She is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.