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making plans to visit their surfing paradise as often as they
can. While they wait, they give back in Vero Beach to several
organizations, including the Vero Beach Homeless Shelter
and the Surfriders Foundation.
Name: Susie O’Toole, M.D.
Occupation: Pediatrician and
department chair of pediatrics at
Indian River Medical Center.
Age: 55
Education: St.Luke’s Hospital
School of Nursing, New Bedford,
Mass. 1974; Wellesley College,
A.B. English with Pre-Med minor,
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Durant Scholar, 1982; Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, 1987; Boston Children’s
Hospital, Harvard University School of Medicine, Internship
& Residency, 1987-1990.
Family: husband, Chuck Evans, assistant principal of Oslo
Middle School in Vero Beach: sons Christopher O’Toole, 24,
and Connor O’Toole, 19; daughter Melissa Evans, 20.
Proudest achievement: “My children and their happiness
despite having a mother go to med school and through residency
training through their birth and young years; my very,
very happy marriage.”
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