Dr Susannah Ward is a Specialist Physician of Rehabilitation Medicine in Newcastle, NSW. She is the Chair of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Member Health & Well-being Committee & Chair of the Well-being Advocates Webinars. She was a College Director on the board & Deputy Chair of the College & Faculty Trainee Committees as a trainee. She is a Director of Mood Active, a charity that supports exercise programs for people with mental illness. She is passionate about holistic health & lifestyle and behavioural & psychological rehabilitation. She incorporates evidence-based wellness tools like mindfulness, psychological tools, nutrition, movement and social/lifestyle prescription into her practice. 

She is a qualified yoga & mindfulness teacher, & founder of Ataraxia Collective, hosting well-being & CPD retreats for doctors. She has a research background, having piloted hospital mindfulness & intern wellness sessions. She has several publications to her name on medical culture change & doctor well-being, & is the author of the self-help book Mastering Real Wellness.