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Susan H. Krieger joins Mt. Nittany staff

DR. SUSAN KRIEGER

STATE COLLEGE — Susan Hostetter Krieger, MD, has been named Mount Nittany Medical Center’s medical director of palliative care services.

Dr. Krieger’s philosophy of care focuses simply on being there for each patient and their loved ones, she says. “Patients and caregivers become part of an extended family. I make it my mission to do what’s best forthe patient, not just what’s best to do tothe patient,” adding, “We’re in this journey together.”

Dr. Krieger earned her bachelor’s degree in pre-medicine from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, now Drexel University College of Medicine, in affiliation with Hahnemann University Hospital. She earned her Master of Science and medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Krieger completed both her internship and residency at the former Medical College of Virginia, now the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Internal Medicine in Hospice & Palliative Medicine.

With more than 25 years of healthcare experience, Dr. Krieger brings with her a wide range of palliative care knowledge. In 2012, she spearheaded an adult palliative care inpatient service at Orange Park Medical Center, an initiative by Community Hospice of Northeast Florida. Dr. Krieger also served as associate medical director for the Jacksonville, Florida, based pediatric palliative and hospice program, Community PedsCare, and as a palliative and hospice physician and assistant professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville.

She currently practices with Nittany Valley Medical Associates in State College.

Dr. Krieger joins Melissa Galloway, CRNP, who joined palliative care services in 2016, after working as a registered nurse with the Medical Center since 2011.

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