Suzane Wilbur received her master’s degree in nursing in 1983 and led mental health crisis units at Metropolitan State Hospital, at the Skid Row Mental Health Center (now Downtown Mental Health Center), and at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.  In 1991, she worked with Dr. J.R. Elpers and the South Bay Chapter of NAMI to set up the AMI-ABLE Program, an ISA model program that she ran until 2000.  Subsequently, she developed the DMH Indigent Medications Program, the Urgent Care Center at Augustus Hawkins, and the DMH Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program.  She retired from County service in 2010 but continues to work part-time as a Clinical Psychiatric Nurse-Specialist.

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