Dr. Susan L. Marra is a Lyme literate Naturopathic physician with over 20 years of experience as a clinician, and over 35 years in the health care industry. She has trained with world leading Lyme disease specialists on the east coast, and has practiced both on the east (Connecticut) and west coasts (Seattle). She has a BS and MS in Psychology with an emphasis in Psychobiology, and received her ND degree from Bastyr University. Prior to attending Bastyr, she worked at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland and at the University of Pennsylvania in brain and behavior research. Dr. Marra has been an ILADS member since 2001.
She has extensive experience in treating tick borne illness in both children and adults and uses an integrated medicine approach to help her patients heal. Dr. Marra believes that the new era of genomics will help identify risk factors in people who have a more difficult time healing from tick borne illness. She shows compassion to a community of people who have been misdiagnosed and misunderstood for several decades. Dr. Marra has been successful in overcoming her own battle with Lyme disease when she contracted it in 2001 while living and practicing in Westport Connecticut. Of note, she never found a tick bite and did not have a bullseye rash.
Dr. Marra is also Board Certified and a Fellow in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine through the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, and is a Fellow in Metabolic Medicine through the Metabolic Medical Institute. She is also recently certified in nutritional genomic consulting through the Nutrigenetic Research Institute. Dr. Marra uses a variety of skills to help her patients heal from tick borne illness, and believes that nutrigenomics is paving the way for a better understanding of the epigenetic environmental factors that contribute to people becoming ill with tick borne illness. She regularly attends seminars, workshops, and conferences to advance her knowledge and remain at the forefront of this new era of medicine.
Dr. Marra uses a combination of herbs, vitamins, antibiotics and German biologic medicine to address the complicated symptom picture that Lyme patients usually present. Generally, her patients do quite well and return to a productive life.
She is licensed to practice Naturopathic Medicine in California and Washington states and is a longstanding member in the following professional communities:
ILADS – International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society
WANP – Washington Association of Naturopathic Physicians
CALND – California Naturopathic Doctors Association
She lives in Seattle and enjoys all the abundant beauty that the Northwest has to offer. She also enjoys art, music, traveling and meeting people from other cultures.
For more information on Dr. Marra’s practice, please visit her websites at www.drsusanmarra.com and www.lymegenomics.com.