A/Prof Susan Evans is a Gynecologist, Laparoscopic Surgeon, Pain Medicine Physician, and has a PhD in the neuroimmune mechanisms underlying period pain, pelvic pain and endometriosis.

Dr Evans is the founder and CEO of Alyra Biotech, author of the book ‘Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain’, Chair of the Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia, Member of the Advisory Committee for Australia’s National Action Plan for Endometriosis, and Co-developer of the Periods, Pain and Endometriosis (PPEP-Talk) Schools Program. She was an Australian of the Year finalist in South Australia in 2023.

Her company, Alyra Biotech, is undertaking ‘first-in-human’ trials of a novel intrauterine device to reduce pelvic pain in women.