PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM HIDDEN MUTATIONS
Susan Weiss Liebman, PhD, was among MIT's early female undergraduate students, part of a pioneering wave of women entering the institution. With an MS from Harvard and a PhD in genetics from the University of Rochester, she served as a biology professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she taught genetics and led a research group for more than three decades. Later she transitioned her lab to the University of Nevada, Reno where she is currently a Research Professor. Over the years she has obtained over $13 million in external grants to support her research.
​Susan raised two children and now delights in four grandchildren alongside her husband of fifty-five years. Following the sudden death of her niece, Liebman became a medical detective and committed to promoting awareness of genetic testing.
Selected Invited Talks and Panels
Dr. Liebman is available to speak to about her book or about genetic testing to a general audience or to physicians for continuing education. ​
Please email SLiebman@UNR.edu to schedule a presentation, author talk or interview.
2025 MIT Alumni Lecture Series, Protect your family with genetic testing. January 16, 2025​
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2024 Reno Reads KOLO TV Channel 8 December 16, 2024
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2024 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Protect your family with genetic testing. December 12, 2024
2024 A Conversation with the Author about my book moderated by Dr. Paul Hauptman, Dean of the UNR School of Medicine December 8, 2024.
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2024 Avid Reader Book Discussion, November 26, 2024
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2024 DNA Today podcast #315 Cardiac Sudden Death: Prevention via Genetics with Drs. Liebman & McNally November 15, 2024
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​2024 The Genetics Podcast EP163 The intersection of loss and genetic insight with Susan Liebman of University of Nevada, November 27, 2024
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2024 It Happened to Me, podcast: Sudden Cardiac Death with The Dressmaker’s Mirror’s Dr. Susan Liebman, November 18, 2024
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2024 UC Davis Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker “Genetic screening for cardiac disease.” January 22, 2024 Link to video
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2023 Molecular Autopsy Implementation Expert Panel Member. The Research Triangle Institute International roundtable event to promote genetic testing in response to sudden death. Link to video
2023 Interview by Dr. Mili Thakur of Genome Ally about The Dressmaker's Mirror. Link to video excerpt
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2022 Grand Rounds Internal Medicine Series, U of Nevada Reno Medical School. "How to improve your patient success rate using today's powerful genetic testing.” Link to short clip
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2021 Invited speaker, “Boobies and Beverages,” a Jewish Nevada program designed to promote genetic testing for cancer.
2020 Invited speaker, University of Rochester Alumni Career Story Series “Balancing a challenging research and teaching career with being a wife and mother.” Link to short clip
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2019 Invited speaker, Temple Emanu-El, Reno NV, “My Ashkenazi Jewish family’s struggle with sudden death.”
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2019 Invited speaker, Yeast Research: Origins, Insights, Breakthroughs, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting “From basic yeast genetics to prions to protein misfolding diseases.” Link to video clip
Author publications on genetics of heart disease.
2024 Liebman SW, A lifesaving revolution delayed, Nature Genetics, Turning Points ​DOI 10.1038/s41588-024-02013-0
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2021 Liebman SW, Palaganas H, Kobany H. A founder mutation in FLNC is likely a major cause of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in Ashkenazi Jews. Int J Cardiol. 23:124.
2021 Liebman SW. The Dressmaker's Mirror, The Jewish Literary Journal, #100 October
2019 Liebman SW. Hidden warnings of sudden cardiac arrest. Knowridge Science Report.​
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Author's watercolors and sketches of family members.
Left to right, author and her father, her son and her niece, her grandmother, her sister, and her mother.
