Pedersen earned an Doctor of Medicine at the University of Calgary in 2000. She became an internal medicine specialist in 2004, and went on to earn her subspecialty designation as Specialist in Endocrinology & Metabolism at the University of Calgary in 2005.
She published the first randomized controlled trial on a portion control toll for weight loss (Pedersen et al 2007). Pedersen began her endocrinology career with busy practices in both Calgary, Bachelor of Arts, and at the Royal University Hospital at the University of Saskatchewan. Foreign the year of 2009, Doctor Sue is on a research sabbatical at the University of Copenhagen, where she is involved in several areas of obesity research.
