Susan Standring

Susan Standring is a British neuroscientist serving as the editor-in-chief of Gray's Anatomy, a reference book for human anatomy. She is an emeritus professor of anatomy at King's College London, where she previously served as head of anatomy. In addition to educating medical and dental students in anatomy for over forty years, Standring has led an extensive research career with over 150 papers published.

Career After completing her PhD, Standring worked as a neuroscientist, publishing over 150 articles relating to her research on repair of the peripheral nervous system. Standring previously served as president of the Peripheral Nerve Society and the Anatomical Society. Standring holds this position from the 39th to the 42nd edition and has moved the text forward, introducing new online editions and incorporating interactive and motion-based graphic to further demonstrate and aid in teaching of the complexity of many structure processes. During her career as an anatomist, Standring has spent over 40 years teaching anatomy to medical and dental students.

Standring also served as an admissions tutor for Medicine for seven years at UMDS and King's College London (King's), helping to develop the Access to Medicine Programme at King's, which aims to expand access to healthcare professions for students studying at less selective state schools in the Greater London area or who participate in the Realising Opportunities programme of England. Through this work, she later served as an advisor in the development of similar programmes at the universities of Bradford and Southampton. Such discoveries will have implications involving operations on the neck and face. In retirement, Standring continues to write on applied anatomical topics and on the histories of topographical anatomy and of nerve repair.