(Norfolk, Va.) -- The Virginia Department of Health welcomes Susan B. Girois, MD, MPH, FACP, CPE as the Director of the Norfolk Department of Public Health effective Monday, July 31.
“We are excited to have Dr. Girois join our team,” said Sulola Adekoya, M.D., MPH, acting director of the Norfolk Department of Public Health. “As a practicing physician in the area for years, she will bring a community wellness perspective to the Norfolk Department of Public Health.”
Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Girois earned her medical degree from Penn State University College of Medicine, and a Master of Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She completed her internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Girois has served as physician leader in the private and public health sectors in the US, as well as non-profit organizations overseas. She began her professional service in inner city Philadelphia providing primary HIV/AIDS care in that city’s public health system. From there she moved to France where she joined a non-profit that supports access to services for people with disabilities in low-income countries.
Upon return to Norfolk in 2011, she joined the Norfolk Community Services Board to provide integrated primary and behavioral health care to people with serious mental illness. For five years she served as Chief Medical Officer at JenCare Senior Medical Centers in Hampton Roads, delivering value-based primary care to low-income seniors.
In 2019 she joined Iora Health as Regional Medical Director. When COVID19 required her to stop travel, she took a job locally as PCP at the Hampton VA Medical Center, Women’s Clinic.