Bruce Drukker Endowed Award of Excellence

Congradulations to Jackie Luthardt, MD candidate 2021, who is this year’s recipient of the Bruce Drukker Endowed Award of Excellence in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Jackie is a Upper Peninsula campus CHM student who is pursuing a career in Ob/Gyn. Her residency Match was to the prestigious University of Wisconsin where she will train in their Rural Track beginning this summer.

During her 3rd year as a medical student, Jackie was nominated by her peers and inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. A member of the National Ski Patrol, she has developed skills to provide medical care in settings from rural communities to the wilderness to the slopes, completing both the CHM Leadership in Rural Medicine certificate program and Outdoor Emergency Care Technician training. She served as Junior Editor of the Medical Student Research Journal and contributed to a research project on prenatal substance use. Jackie was selected to represent her medical school peers in multiple leadership and community outreach roles.

We are proud to honor Jackie with the 2021 Bruce Drukker Endowed Award of Excellence.