Susan L. Pekarske, MD, served as Staff Pathologist at the Northwest Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona for nearly 15 years. She is a Diplomate of The American Board of Pathology in combined Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and a Diplomate of The American Board of Hematology.

Dr. Pekarske received her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Medical School, where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. After completing medical school, Dr. Pekarske completed an internship in Internal Medicine and residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of California at San Diego.

Following residency training, Dr. Pekarske completed a year of fellowship training in Hematopathology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California and returned to the University of California at San Diego to serve as an attending physician in the Department of Pathology for two years. Dr. Pekarske has served as a Trustee of the McKnight Brain Research Foundation since 2018.