Susan Buchanan MD

About

Susan Buchanan is a family medicine doctor in Chicago, Illinois, board certified in Occupational Medicine and trained at The Ohio State University - College of Medicine. She specializes in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine - Occupational Medicine, treating patients exposed to environmental and occupational health hazards, including lead and mercury exposure. At the University of Illinois Hospital and University of Illinois Physician Group, she practices environmental and occupational medicine with a focus on reproductive environmental health and worker health and safety. Dr. Buchanan is the director of the Great Lakes Center for Children's and Reproductive Environmental Health and a clinical associate professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UIC School of Public Health. Her research addresses health problems related to toxic substances and environmental hazards in the workplace and community, with particular attention to minority, low-income, and immigrant workers, children, and reproductive health. She has published studies on mercury exposure in Asian communities in Chicago, protective gear use among Latino day laborers, and lead exposure among Chicago's children. She speaks English and Spanish.