Susan Mosier | |
Office: | Kansas Secretary of Health and Environment |
Governor: | Sam Brownback |
Term Start: | December 1, 2014 |
Predecessor: | Robert Moser |
Successor: | Jeff Andersen |
State House1: | Kansas |
State1: | Kansas |
District1: | 67th |
Term Start1: | January 1, 2011 |
Term End1: | February 1, 2012 |
Preceded1: | Tom Hawk |
Succeeded1: | Tom Phillips |
Party: | Republican |
Birth Date: | 10 July 1959 |
Birth Place: | Manhattan, Kansas, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Kansas State University (B.A.) University of Texas at Austin (M.B.A.) University of Kansas (M.D.) |
Residence: | Manhattan, Kansas |
Susan Kay Mosier (born July 10, 1959)[1] is an American physician who is the former Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.[2] [3] On November 13, 2014, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback named Dr. Mosier as the Interim Secretary, replacing Dr. Robert Moser, who stepped down at the end of November. Mosier was a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 67th district. Her term began in 2011 and she resigned her seat, effective February 1, 2012, to accept the position director of Medicaid in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.[4]
Mosier is an ophthalmologist and former owner of Mosier Eye Care in Manhattan, Kansas; she closed her practice when appointed Medicaid director for Kansas. She is board certified and has specialties in two areas: eye surgery and refractive surgical procedures.
Mosier sponsored four bills and eleven resolutions in the 2011 session. She sponsored two resolutions in the 2012 session before resigning.[5]
Once Mosier assumed the office of Secretary of KDHE, her name was substituted for Dr. Moser's in the Marie v. Moser case.
Mosier served on four legislative committees in 2011:
In 2011, she was assigned to the Special Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.
Mosier's 2010 campaign was 73% donor-funded and 27% self-funded.[6]