Susan Stewart (also Burke, Baxter, McDermott and Decker) is a fictional character from the defunct American soap opera As the World Turns.

A reformed alcoholic and respected physician, she played a supporting role in later years offering advice to her two daughters, Alison and Emily, who inherited their mother's penchant for controversy and trouble.

They had married while they were both attending medical school and not, long after they graduated, Susan intentionally caused a miscarriage.

Susan noticed her husband's new friendship and quickly set about trying to make a couple out of Liz and Dan's brother, Paul Stewart.

Dan was more than upset with Susan and, in the heat of an argument, pushed her down a staircase, causing her to lose her baby.

Bruce did not want children, so Susan divorced Dan and gave him full custody of Emily.

Dan married Liz (Paul died of a brain tumor never learning that Betsy's father was his own brother.

Susan knew that Bruce didn't want children, but she figured that after a while, she could make him change his mind.

She found her heart wandering back to Dan and, while visiting with Emily at the Stewart home one day, she and Liz got into an argument.

Once her memory returned, she called Dan to let him know that she remembered, but Susan hid the answering machine tape that the message was on.

When Dan, still believing that Kim forgot him, started to see Valerie Conway, Susan confessed the truth about what she did to Kevin.

With Kevin soon killed in an accident and Dan dead from a terminal illness, Susan left town sober, with daughter Emily in tow.

[1] Susan came back to Oakdale looking for Emily, and reconnected with several old acquaintances, including John Dixon.

The teenaged Alison was a rebel who sought the affections of Aaron Snyder in a way similar to her mother's own quest for Dan Stewart's love.

Rick was a suspicious man that she met at a medical convention and both Alison and Emily felt uneasy about him.

He admitted to suffering from anxiety attacks and asked Susan to leave town with him so that he could get psychiatric help.

First, she learned of Alison's infamy as a Las Vegas porn actress (not to mention an addiction to crystal meth), and then found that Emily had been working as a call girl.

Emily found out that Alison had had an affair with Dusty and skipped town, leaving Susan in Oakdale to try to help her daughter pick up the pieces.