Dr. Sucher grew up in St. Louis, MO. He enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving on active duty in the 1980s as a reconnaissance specialist. Following his active-duty commitment, he attended the University of Missouri – Columbia (Mizzou) and graduated as an Honors Scholar with a degree in Biochemistry. He worked as a biochemist for Eli Lilly, Inc. in Indianapolis, creating an automated system for biochemical analysis of novel HIV protease inhibitors.

Dr. Sucher is an Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society member from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, graduating medical school as Magna Cum Laude. He attended surgical residency at the University of Texas-Houston Health Sciences Center (UTH-HSC), during which time he also developed an enterprise-level electronic medical record system and became an expert in clinical software.

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After completing his general surgical residency training and fellowship in Surgical Critical Care, Acute Care Surgery and Trauma Surgery at UTH-HSC he joined the staff at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas as an Assistant Professor of Surgery with Weill Cornell Medical College. There he focused on complex abdominal wall hernia reconstruction and published multiple scientific articles on robotic telepresence in the ICU, and computerized clinical decision support in shock.

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Dr. Sucher continues his military service as a trauma surgeon with the Army Reserves and has been deployed three times to Afghanistan and once to Iraq as a surgeon with US Army Forward Surgical Teams. In 2013, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona joining the Acute Care Surgical Specialists trauma surgery group. In 2014 he was appointed Medical Director of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Services at HonorHealth Deer Valley Hospital; at that time, an ACS level 3 trauma center. Deer Valley was subsequently verified as an ACS level 2 and Arizona state level 1 trauma center in 2019.

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Dr. Sucher continues to serve as the Medical Director of Trauma at Deer Valley hospital. He is the past president of the Arizona Trauma Association and has served as a member of the Executive Advisory Board of the Arizona Coalition for Healthcare Emergency Response (AzCHER) as well as a member of the board of governors for the Arizona Emergency Medical Systems (AEMS) Committee. He has also served as a subject matter expert for Texas A&M Engineering Extension Services (TEEX) for mass casualties in bombing incidents. Dr. Sucher continues to actively pursue clinical research and has published over 25 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 5 book chapters and is a highly regarded invited speaker on mass casualty incidents, surgical rib fixation, geriatric trauma, hemorrhagic shock and health care information technology.