{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Susan Mosier |office = Kansas Secretary of Health and Environment |governor = Sam Brownback |term_start = December 1, 2014 |predecessor = Robert Moser |successor = Jeff Andersen |state_house1= Kansas |state1 = Kansas |district1 = 67th |term_start1 = January 1, 2011 |term_end1 = February 1, 2012 |preceded1 = Tom Hawk |succeeded1 = Tom Phillips |party = Republican |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|7|10}} |birth_place = Manhattan, Kansas, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |alma_mater = Kansas State University (B.A.)<br>University of Texas at Austin (M.B.A.)<br/>University of Kansas (M.D.) }}
'''Susan Kay Mosier''' (born July 10, 1959)<ref>''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.</ref> is an American physician who is the former Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.<ref name="MosierNomination">[http://www.kdheks.gov/news/web_archives/2014/11132014.htm=Dr. Susan Mosier named interim secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.] November 13, 2014. Retrieved August 12, 2015.</ref><ref>[http://cjonline.com/news/2014-12-20/gov-brownback-appoints-susan-mosier-lead-kdhe=Gov. Brownback appoints Susan Mosier to lead KDHE.] December 20, 2014. Retrieved August 12, 2015.</ref> On November 13, 2014, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback named Dr. Mosier as the Interim Secretary, replacing Dr. Robert Moser, who stepped down at the end of November.<ref name="MosierNomination" /> Mosier was a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 67th district. Her term began in 2011 and she resigned her seat, effective February 1, 2012, to accept the position director of Medicaid in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.<ref>[http://1350kman.com/?p=7308 Riley County GOP to fill House vacancy.] January 16, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.</ref>
Mosier is an ophthalmologist and former owner of Mosier Eye Care in Manhattan, Kansas; she closed her practice when appointed Medicaid director for Kansas. She is board certified and has specialties in two areas: eye surgery and refractive surgical procedures.
==Record== Mosier sponsored four bills and eleven resolutions in the 2011 session. She sponsored two resolutions in the 2012 session before resigning.<ref>[http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/members/rep_mosier_susan_1/ Representative Susan Mosier legislative record, Kansas House of Representatives]. Kansas Legislature. Retrieved March 12, 2012.</ref>
==Same-Sex marriage== {{Main|Same-sex marriage in Kansas#Marie v. Moser}} Once Mosier assumed the office of Secretary of KDHE, her name was substituted for Dr. Moser's in the Marie v. Moser case.
==Committee membership== Mosier served on four legislative committees in 2011: *Insurance *Joint Committee on Heath Policy Oversight *Health and Human Services *Financial Institutions
In 2011, she was assigned to the Special Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.
==Campaign donors== Mosier's 2010 campaign was 73% donor-funded and 27% self-funded.<ref>[http://www.kansas.gov/ethics/Campaign_Finance/index.html Campaign Finance] Retrieved July 5, 2012.</ref>
==References== <references/>
==External links== *[http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/year1/members/rep_mosier_susan_1/ Kansas Legislature - Susan Mosier] *[http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/contributor.phtml?d=168846079 Project Vote Smart profile] *Campaign contributions:[http://www.kansas.gov/ethics/Campaign_Finance/index.html] *[http://www.kdheks.gov/ Kansas Department of Health and Environment]
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