University of Washington School of Medicine fourth-year medical student, Kirsten Jorgensen of Juneau, has been accepted into the Washington Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) national Honor Medical Society.
She is a 2008 graduate of Juneau-Douglas High School and went on to complete her undergraduate degree at Harvard before joining the UW School of Medicine at the University of Alaska Anchorage in the WWAMI program.
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society is a professional medical organization that recognizes and advocates for excellence in scholarship and the highest ideals in the profession of medicine. The top 25 percent of a medical school class is eligible for nomination to the society.
After medical school and subsequent residency training, she plans to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology.
