Abby Wertz

STEM Scholarship Recipient, 2025

Abby Wertz, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a member of the class of 2027 and is seeking a degree in Biological Sciences: Human Health and Disease and Global Health Studies on the pre-medical path. Her goal is to become a Cardiothoracic Surgeon, a specialty made up of only 9% of women physicians. She has a special interest in women’s health and is conducting maternal health research within her Global Health Studies major. As a junior in high school, she was selected by the American College of Cardiology to be a Young Scholar attending ACC meetings and their annual conference to learn about research and technology. Abby is deeply involved in the Northwestern community as she is an organic chemistry peer tutor on campus and conducts traumatic brain injury research in the Schwulst lab at Feinberg Medical School. She is an EMT and is currently working with the Red Cross and Abbott to plan blood drives around Northwestern’s campus. Through her academic, research, and service endeavors, Abby is committed to advancing women’s health and contributing to the future of medicine as a passionate, forward-thinking female physician.