Susan Neuhaus

Susan Josephine Neuhaus (née Evans) is an Australian surgeon, non-executive director and author. Neuhaus was one of three finalists for the South Australian nomination for Australian of the Year in 2012.

Education Neuhaus graduated with MB, BS in 1989 from the University of Adelaide. She obtained Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2003, and completed her PhD in 2000 from the University of Adelaide, in the mechanisms of the spread of cancer. She was the first female doctor to be posted overseas from Australia as regimental medical officer in 1993 when she spent 9 months with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, at the height of the AIDs epidemic.

Four years later she was posted with the Peace Monitoring Group in Bougainville and later served as Clinical Director of the multinational NATO hospital in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan in 2009.

As Associate Professor of Conflict Medicine, she was involved with a developing national research collaborative approach investigating the gender specific effects of military service and deployment. This included the landmark study: Mothers in the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) -The health impacts of maternal deployment.

Medical career Neuhaus was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2003. She also served on the council of the Australian Medical Association and was Chair of the Health Financing and Economics Committee.

Neuhaus Chaired the inaugural Australian National Sarcoma Guidelines committee

Selected publications Neuhaus, Susan J & Devitt, Peter, 1947- & Neuhaus, Susan & Gormly, Kirsten L (2006). Radiology in surgical practice. Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh ; New York. Neuhaus, Susan J & Mascall-Dare, Sharon, (author.) (2014). Not for glory : a centenary of service by medical women to the Australian army and its allies. Boolarong Press, Brisbane, Australia. Neuhaus, Susan (2018). Images of service and sacrifice - tracing narratives in stained glass. In Journal of Military and Veterans Health. 26 (4), 26-31. Susan Neuhaus (2025). The Surgeon of Royaumont. Harper Collins, HQ, Chatswood, NSW.

Awards and honours 2001 - Deputy Chief of the Australian Defence Force Reserves Prize, Joint Command and Staff College. 2011 - Australian Medical Association Award for South Australia. 2018 - The first woman to deliver the ANZAC Day Australian War Memorial dawn service address. 2020 - Awarded Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to medicine, to community health, and to veterans and their families.