Susie Dinan-Young is a Senior Clinical Exercise Practitioner and a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Free and University College School of Medicine and Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust. She previously has worked at the University of Derby on the BTec and PGCert in Osteoporosis and Falls. She has developed, supervised and delivered clinical exercise programmes in Secondary and Primary Care settings for  Departments of Physiotherapy, Old Age Psychiatry, Health Services for Older People, Cardiology, Palliative Care and Endocrinology. Her Research Fellow work for the Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences focuses on exercise for the older person and involves designing educational training programmes for health and exercise professionals designing exercise protocols for research studies and implementing and evaluating outcomes in a primary care setting.  She was awarded her PhD in 2009.

She has also developed, implemented and quality assured exercise referral and recreational programmes for frailer older people in Community, Residential and nursing home settings. She is an advisor to the National Osteoporosis Society, The International Society for Physical Activity and Prevention of Osteoporosis, Falls and Fractures and The British Geriatric Society’s Special Interest Group in Health Promotion, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and Dance UK’s Healthier Dancer Programme.

She is a commissioned author for the Department of Health, most recently the National Quality Assurance Framework for Exercise Referral Systems and the Exercise Evidence for Prevention of Falls and Fractures in the DoH's Prevention Package 2009, and co-author of the books ‘Strong Bones' and ‘Fitness for Seniors’. She is a co-author of the 2010 Best Practice Guidance for the Development of Exercise after Stroke Services in Community Settings from the Scottish Government.

Apart from being a director of LLT, she is also the PSI Development Co-ordinator, Internal Verifier and Senior Assessor.  She sits on the Level 4 Skills Active Standards board and liaises with the Royal College of Physicians to ensure standards of care for patients being referred to exercise.

Her background, as a dancer, with the Scottish Ballet, the founder of the Healthier Dancer programme, her BEd in Dance and Movement and Postgraduate Diploma and her collaboration with Bob Geldof on the SportAid Appeal, and her many years teaching exercise to movement to paitents, have led to an appreciation of movement and education in its widest sense. She has an undiminished and lifelong enjoyment of dance, downhill and cross country skiing, water skiing and more recently cycling. She won the Exercise England Special Achievement Award in 1990 and the Fitness Professionals Award of Excellence in 2001.

Susie is married to Prof Archie Young and lives in Edinburgh.