Suhad A. Hadi, DPM, FACFAS

Suhad A. Hadi, DPM graduated from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, now Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine in 1997.  She completed a 3-year surgical residency at the University of Texas at San Antonio from 1997-2000.  Upon completion of her training she continued as faculty at UTHSC-SA where she served as Director of Resident Education for 3 years.  She then went on to private practice with Mercy Medical Group, now Dignity Health, in Sacramento, California.  While there she served as Chief of Podiatry within the group and served as Medical Director of their Timberlake satellite clinic.  She was also Section Chief at Mercy San Juan and Mercy General Hospitals, and held various leadership roles within the multispecialty group.  She has been with the Veterans Administration since 2009 and was Director of the PAVE (Prevention of Amputations in Veterans Everywhere) program in Seattle, Washington and is now full-time faculty at Louis Stokes Veterans Administration in Cleveland at the Akron CBOC facility.  Her training and work have given her a strong background in diabetic foot and limb salvage as well as resident education/training.  She founded and developed the Residency Educator’s Course in her work with ePRESENT and has certifications in Clinical education at both the University of Texas Health Science Center, and recently achieved certification and is an Associate Graduate of Harvard Medical School’s Train to Teach in Medicine program.   She has been appointed as a Board Member of the Kent State University’s Foot and Ankle Clinics.