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Art Background Suzanne completed certification in Neuro-Art Therapy from Del Giacco's Creative Arts Therapy Institute and has spent many hours working in art to improve cognitive functioning in young adults with disabilities in local schools. She is a member of the Kalamazoo Institute of Art (teacher status), and she has been a member of local, regional and national fine art societies throughout the years. Her artwork has been featured on the covers of various dog books and magazines as well as health and medical journals. Some of her work can be seen on her website and at various Michigan art fairs and online art galleries. |
Suzanne also completed an addition one year medical laboratory internship in cytology at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI. She has been an associate member of the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) and The American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) for years. Over the last several years, Suzanne wrote and illustrated a cytology book on nutrition, disease processes, and cancer called The Art of Cytology: An Illustrative Study Guide with Micronutrient Discussions which is now available at bookstores worldwide (see reviews). Several of her illustrations and writings, such and human papilloma virus and folic acid deficiency, have been published in medical articles, used in educational literature, displayed at national cytology meetings, etc. (see published cytology work). After screening thousands of Pap Tests of women on hormones in the cytology laboratory over the years, Suzanne was one of the first in her field to alert clinicians and women of their dangers (eg: cancer and heart disease), especially when coupled with micronutrient insufficiencies such as folic acid. That is one of the main reasons she created her website on cytology and nutrition and wrote and illustration The Art of Cytology. Suzanne has been a constant advocate for quality cancer screening and worked with others in her field to help initiate and pass The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988 (CLIA '88) which mandated federal regulatory guidelines for cancer screening in cytology laboratories. Suzanne believes that cytology can be used to detect micronutrient insufficiencies, such as folic acid, B12, and vitamin A, and that these initial cell changes are associated with early oncogenesis. She believes further that these changes, often reported as "benign cellular changes" or "atypical cells of undetermined significance," can be observed 8-10 weeks sooner on routine Pap Tests (eg: cervical, lung sputum, or gastic wash) than standard blood tests now used to detect such deficiencies. Studies long ago proved this to be true, (see an excerpt from her book: The Cervical Pap Test: A Built-in Existing Too ). Suzanne would like to see cytology used to detect and report early micronutrient deficiencies to also help prevent devastating birth defects such as spina bifida resulting from insufficient folic acid in women of child-bearing age. She has worked hard to promote folic acid awareness in young women, collaborating with the March of Dimes, the CDC, and the NIH, distributing their pamphlets and information sheets on the subject at local health fairs and meetings. More recently she wrote and illustrated a booklet and Powerpoint presentation, Folic Acid and HPV Awareness: Combating Birth Defects and Disease Processes which she distributes to teachers and health care professionals at these places well. Her several websites, such as The Art of Cytology, Folic Acid Deficiency, and Nutrition, continually report new findings on nutrition, disease processes, and cancer. She has maintained a specific web page dedicated to her diet, coined in 1998 called, "The Color Diet" . Holistic Health Care Background |
As
an artist, I like to stir emotion in people. It is through
children,
animals, and nature that I get most of my inspirations for they are
subject
to mankind's inventions and dilemmas and have no control over the
results
of "progress." I like to think that we can someday be in harmony
with nature and create future generations that care about all living things.
