About

BIOGRAPHY
Susan E. Vleck, PhD, RBP/CBSP(ABSA), is an EH&S Assistant Director overseeing the Laboratory Chemical and Physical Safety, as well as the Manager of the Animal Research Occupational Health & Safety Program, in the Department of Environmental Health & Safety at Stanford University. She earned her B.A. in Biology with Honors from Grinnell College in 2004, and her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University in 2010. Her Ph.D. research centered on viral pathogenesis relating to functional and structural domains of Varicella-Zoster virus glycoproteins, and her Post-Doctoral research focused on investigating Hepatitis C virus and antiviral drugs, utilizing a humanized-liver mouse model. She now applies her background in scientific research to aiding Stanford researchers in incorporating safety into their everyday work. She leads the ongoing development and implementation of Stanford’s Laboratory Chemical and Physical Safety Program, and ensures safe practices, understanding, and compliance for work done in a wide array of research labs. She leads and directs a team of 9 management and professional personnel to oversee a broad spectrum of environmental, health and safety programs of significant scope and complexity. As Manager of the Animal Research Occupational Health & Safety Team, she partners within EH&S and across Stanford to enact and advise on health and safety policies, trainings, institutional accreditation preparation, and inspections relating to work with and around animals. In these capacities, she works with Stanford’s research community of faculty, staff, post-doctoral scholars and grad students, other groups within Environmental Health & Safety, other departments at Stanford, and local, state and federal institutions that provide regulatory or guidance documentation. She currently lives in Santa Clara, CA, with her husband and two children, and likes to run, read and scuba dive in her spare time.