Susan F. Moan Hardie, MN, PhD
Dr. Susan Hardie holds a doctorate in Education and Child Development and Masters in Psychiatric and Community Mental Health Nursing from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her career spans almost five decades caring for abused children and children with developmental disabilities and their families, as well as adult survivors of sexual abuse and offenders. Dr. Hardie has held numerous administrative, academic and clinical positions, maintained a private practice, and conducted research on children’s eyewitness testimony and suggestibility. She was on the faculty of the UCLA School of Nursing, UCLA Extension, and the Graduate Schools of Psychology at Pepperdine and Antioch Universities. Dr. Hardie also was the director of Stuart House, a multidisciplinary child advocacy center for abused children and their families in Santa Monica, California for 15 years. She is the immediate past president of the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and serves as secretary on the board of directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.