Susan Josephine Neuhaus AM CSC FRACS (née Evans[1]) is an Australian general surgeon and surgical oncologist with specialty interests in melanoma and sarcoma surgery.
Her operational experience included postings to Cambodia, Bougainville and Afghanistan[4] She was the first female doctor to be posted overseas from Australia as regimental medical officer in 1993 when she spent 9 months with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia followed four years later by several months with the Peace Monitoring Group in Bougainville as an officer in the Army Reserve.
[6] As Associate Professor Conflict Medicine, Susan leads a developing national research collaborative approach investigating the gender specific effects of military service and deployment.
This included the landmark study: Mothers in the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) -The health impacts of maternal deployment.
[7] In 2018, Colonel Neuhaus (Ret) became the first woman to deliver the ANZAC Day Australian War Memorial dawn service address.