Lead Academic Resident, Psychiatry Resident PGY-III
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
My name is Heather Wurtz and I am a PGY III resident at Rutgers NJMS, and will be Lead Academic Resident next year. I was born and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, where I was first exposed to the field of medicine by my father, a neonatologist. I attended Grinnell College, in Iowa, where I majored in psychology, while completing premedical studies as well. Since college I have had the opportunity to live in Durham, North Carolina; Pasadena, California; and Zurich, Switzerland, before landing in Pennington, New Jersey in 2004.
I attended medical school at Rutgers NJMS and was excited to work with the excellent faculty and staff in the NJMS Psychiatry Department and was lucky to be able to continue to learn from them as a resident. During medical school I served as an editor on a student written psychiatry question book. Continuing at NJMS for residency, I get exposure to diverse patient populations and psychopathology, as well as first-rate teachers and mentors, and enthusiastic and caring residents. During residency I have been involved in our own Urban Mental Health Conference, have a number of accepted posters to APA, and have co-written a chapter for a book about The Technological Addictions which is planned for publication in this coming academic year.