About Me

Susan Hershberg Adelman MD

I began painting at five years of age. Interested in my cousin’s jewelry business I majored in geology at the University of Michigan. There, I married a law student, Martin Adelman, and switched to medicine.

While a teaching fellow in geology at Wayne State University and completing my premed requirements, I took courses in the art department. I attended the Wayne State University School of Medicine, with internship and surgery residency at Henry Ford Hospital and pediatric surgery fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Michigan.

While practicing pediatric surgery I studied life painting with Zubel Kachadoorian, and I exhibited painting and sculpture at the Scarab Club. I have been interested in sculpture, architecture and fabric designs while traveling in India, the Orient and the Middle East. I also pursued sculpture, ceramics, painting, and beading jewelry. Since closing my surgical practice in June, 2002, I have studied painting and jewelry making at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center

The first woman president of the Michigan State Medical Society and the Wayne County Medical Society, I was on the AMA Board of Trustees. I edited the Detroit Medical News and I wrote a monthly column in AMNews for many years. I served on the board of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and I was president of a physician labor organization. I have published over 40 articles and over 300 columns and editorials.

I speak French, Arabic, Spanish and a bit of several more languages.