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Black History Month: Early-career DO shares insights on underrepresentation and injustice in medicine

By The DO Staff

02.17.24

In this month’s edition of DOs to Know, we reconnect with the remarkable Ashley R. Peterson, DO. Readers may recall her inspiring journey, featured in The DO in 2020, to become one of the youngest Black women to earn a DO degree. When we last spoke with her, Dr. Peterson had recently graduated from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine-Georgia Campus (PCOM-GA) as a member of the class of 2019, and she was halfway through her intern year in family medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.