ABOUT ME
Dr. Suzanne “Susie” Cutler
Board-Certified Pediatrician · Founder · Westchester County, NY
MY STORY
I’m a board-certified pediatrician with over two decades of experience caring for children and families across Westchester County and the lower Hudson Valley. I completed medical school and residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, where I also served as chief resident, and have worked alongside thousands of families navigating everything from newborn care to complex developmental and behavioral concerns.
After 21 years, I became increasingly aware that what I loved most was helping parents navigate the journey of parenthood — but giving them the tools they actually needed required far more than a 15-minute office visit allowed.
There’s no training program for being a parent. No manual to consult. And yet it’s the hardest, most important job you’ll ever have. In today’s world especially, the information overload alone is dizzying — knowing what to trust, what to act on, and what to let go of is genuinely overwhelming.
When my son was three, his preschool teacher brought to my attention that he hadn’t uttered a single word at school — despite making real progress in speech therapy at home. Working through that with specialists taught me more about selective mutism and how anxiety shows up in young children than anything I learned in residency. But what stayed with me most was understanding how that process feels as a parent — the uncertainty, the searching for answers, the hoping someone truly gets it.
As a pediatrician and parent of two beautifully complex children (now 17 and 19 years old), what I’m passionate about is being that trusted partner — someone who understands from both sides of the exam table what you’re going through — and helping families navigate developmental concerns, behavioral challenges, childhood anxiety, and more, with clarity and evidence-based guidance.
I stepped away from general practice because parents need and deserve more. I founded Cutler Pediatric Medicine to bridge the gap between the office visit and real life — to bring calm to the chaos of parenting TM.
EDUCATION
BA, Biological Basis of Behavior — University of Pennsylvania
MD — Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Pediatric Residency & Chief Resident — Mount Sinai Hospital
BOARD CERTIFICATION
Board Certified, General Pediatrics — American Board of Pediatrics (current)
FAAP — Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
Intensive Training: Child & Adolescent Mental Health for Primary Care Clinicians — Project TEACH
"When I became a pediatrician, I thought I was in the business of caring for children. Twenty-one years later, I realized I was actually in the business of equipping parents." — Dr. Susie Cutler
Every day in my practice, I saw parents who were doing everything right — and still felt lost. Not because they didn't love their children. Not because they weren't trying. But because nobody had ever given them the actual tools they needed to navigate the most demanding, most important job of their lives.