About Me
Kirsten spent her time in medical school showing commitment to underserved communities as a targeted rural underserved track scholar and having completed extracurricular service and coursework through the underserved pathway at University of Washington. Her favorite course in preclinical courses were about the brain; she later discovered her love for general neurology while rotating in Missoula, Montana, fueling a passion to serve the mountain west as a neurologist. During medical school, she won a grant to look at rural communities’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a project that looked at five different communities in Eastern Washington. Before medical school, she completed a year of national service through AmeriCorps, where she learned about her passion for working for people with chronic illness while providing diabetes education. She enjoys creative writing and engaging in medical humanities and won an essay contest as well as poetry prize in medical school, while also being published in Intima, a medical humanities journal. In her free time, she enjoys getting outside, including cross-country and downhill skiing, cycling, and trail running.
