Dr. Robert K. Su was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1942. He graduated from School of Pharmacy, former Taipei Medical College in 1965, and received his Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy. He graduated from Nagasaki University School of Medicine in 1971, and received his Medical Doctor degree. He briefly interned at the Department of Surgery, Nagasaki City Hospital, after his graduation from medical school. He completed his internship at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972. He finished his residency in anesthesiology at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia in 1974. He has been in private practice in anesthesiology and pain management since 1974. He continued to practice pain management full time until 2006. He continues to practice pain management, part-time, with acupuncture.