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Susan Lark  

Author of Nine Books on Women's Health, An Authority in Clinical Nutrition and Preventive Medicine

Dr. Susan Lark is one of the foremost authorities in the fields of clinical nutrition and preventive medicine. A graduate of Northwestern University Medical School, she served on the clinical faculty of Stanford University Medical School from 1981-1983, and taught in Stanford's Primary Care Associate Program in the Division of Family and Community Medicine from 1991-2002.

Dr. Lark is a distinguished clinician, author, lecturer and innovative product developer. Through her 28 years of clinical experience, she has pioneered the use of self-care treatments such as diet, nutrition, exercise and stress management techniques in the field of women's health, and has lectured extensively throughout the United States on topics in preventive medicine. She has also published her ground-breaking therapies in a nine-book series that includes the Premenstrual Syndrome Self Help Book, the Menopause Self Help Book and Anxiety and Stress, among others. With her husband, James A. Richards, MBA, she has also co-authored The Chemistry of Success: Six Secrets of Peak Performance.

One of the most widely referenced physicians on the Internet, Dr. Lark has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, and has been featured in magazines and newspapers including: Real Simple, Reader's Digest, McCall's, Better Homes & Gardens, New Woman, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, Family Circle, Seventeen, Shape, Great Life, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She has also served as a consultant to major corporations, including the Kellogg Company and Weider Nutrition International, and was spokesperson in 2002 for The Gillette Company Women's Cancer Connection.

Dr. Lark's mission is to provide women with unique, safe and effective complementary therapies to greatly enhance their health and well-being.

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