Susan Camstok Adams, who was called An sushan, graduated from the University of Wisconsin and the Nursing School of Wesley Memorial Hospital and visited Korea with her husband, Missionary Adams, in 1921. First, she was doing missionary work in Jaeryeong, Hwanghae-do, and in 1925, her husband was transferred to the Daegu Missionary Branch and came to Daegu with him.

Upon arriving in Daegu, Susan helped the nursing training center affiliated with Dongsan Christian Hospital work, and she was associated with the cooperative director. She hoped that each nurse would contribute to the salvation of the soul by helping patients in hospitals, improving public health, improving the dignity of their jobs, and mastering skills to extend a helping hand to the mental poverty of patients.

According to the report of Dongsan Christian Hospital between 1929 and 1930, the director was Headberg, the cooperative director was Susan, and there were six Korean nurses, and 17 student nurses.

Susan and Adams in traditional Korean wedding clothes

The Women's Bible School run by the Adams couple in Daegu, 1934

After liberation, she returned to Korea in 1946 and taught students at the Jeongshin Girls' School in Daegu. In 1950, she fled to Japan due to the outbreak of the Korean War, worked at the Tokyo Blood Bank, and sent 500 boxes of clothes to Korea to distribute them to refugees. In 1951, she taught the Bible at a non-Christian university in Japan, and in 1955, she requested a special grant from the World Service Committee of the Church to establish the Yonsei University Center for Disabled Children. She returned to the United States with her husband Adams in July 1963.