U.S. DHHS, Office of Population Affairs, Office of Family Planning
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 700
Rockville,
MD
USA
20852
Email:
susan.moskosky@hhs.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Susan B. Moskosky, MS, RNC - Director of the Office of Family Planning in the Office of Population Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is responsible for administration, as well as program and policy development and implementation for the national Title X Family Planning Program. She assumed the position of Director, Office of Family Planning, in January 2001. Prior to that, she served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Family Planning. Before moving to Washington, D.C. to work in the Office of Population Affairs, Susan served as the Regional Program Consultant for Family Planning in Region VII, Kansas City and was also the Region VII PHS Women's Health Coordinator. She is a certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, and prior to Federal employment, spent 15 years teaching nurse practitioner students and providing family planning, prenatal and other related preventive health services in maternal health and family planning clinics in Dallas, Texas. She directed the Women's Health Care Advanced Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, which was one of the five nurse practitioner programs funded by Title X for many years. She has served on a number of boards of professional associations, and has served as contributing editor for a number of professional journals. She was editor of the Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner Certification Review Guide, published in 1995. Ms. Moskosky received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from Baylor University, and a Master of Science in Maternal-Child Nursing from Texas Woman's University and maintains professional certification through NCC as a Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner.