Anna Petersen (She/Her)
Education Chair
Rush Medical College at Rush University
Class of 2023

Anna Petersen is a medical student in the Rush Medical College Class of 2023. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and studied biology at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was inspired to learn more about deficiencies in medical research, education, and treatment with regard to women’s health after reading Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery (2018), and is excited to be involved in this project. Before medical school, she worked as an EMT and Field Training Officer for a Bay Area ambulance company. During her first year of medical school, she joined Rush’s Student Committee on the Academic Curriculum and recently become a Peer Tutoring leader. Anna plans to specialize in Emergency Medicine and is motivated to close the gap of medical education to include historically ignored and under-researched conditions primarily affecting women.