Susan C. Ball, MD, MPH, MS Clinical Professor of Medicine Co-Course Director, Practice of Medicine City University of New York School of Medicine Clinical Professor Emerita Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. Susan Ball majored in Art History at Dartmouth College and completed her MD degree at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. After residency training in Internal Medicine in Syracuse, New York, Dr. Ball went to New York City to pursue an MPH from Columbia while working in a primary care clinic at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Ball joined the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine in 1992 as an attending in the HIV care center, the Center for Special Studies. While maintaining her clinical role at Weill Cornell, in 2009 Dr. Ball returned to Columbia for a Masters degree in Science with the study of Narrative Medicine, and then served as co-PI with Dr. Rita Charon on a 5-year NIH grant to enhance teaching the social sciences in medical school. After three decades as an HIV specialist at Weill Cornell, Dr. Ball stepped down in August 2022 to pursue other activities. In February 2024, she accepted a clinical professor position at the CUNY School of Medicine as Co-Course Director in the Practice of Medicine course, teaching clinical medicine to first and second year medical students. With the support of the dean at CUNY medicine, Dr. Ball is looking to bring her knowledge, experience and expertise to the further development of a curriculum which recognizes the intrinsic importance of humanities and humanism in the study of medicine.