Jerri Nielsen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jerri Nielsen
Occupation	Physician
Date Of Birth	Mar 1, 1952(1952-03-01)
Age	72
Date Of Death	June 23, 2009, Southwick, MA
Birthplace	Salem Township
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Pisces

Jerri Nielsen Biography

Jerri Nielsen is one of the most popular and richest Physician who was born on March 1, 1952 in Salem Township, Ohio, United States.

Dr. Jerri Lin Nielsen (née Cahill; March 1, 1952 – June 23, 2009) was an American physician with extensive emergency room experience, who self-treated her breast cancer while stationed at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica until she could be evacuated safely.

Nielsen’s case shares some similarities with that of Dr. Leonid Rogozov, who had to remove his own appendix while spending the winter at Novolazarevskaya research station in 1961. Since this incident, that station has always been staffed with two doctors.

Jerri Nielsen Net Worth

Jerri Nielsen is one of the richest Physician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jerri Nielsen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born as Jerri Lin Cahill in Salem, Ohio in March 1, 1952, a suburb of Youngstown, Ohio, Nielsen was the oldest child and only daughter of Philip and Lorine Cahill, who raised their family in a rural area just outside Salem. She graduated pre-med from Ohio University in Athens before entering the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo and graduating with a medical degree.

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With ghostwriter Maryanne Vollers, Nielsen’s story was told in the autobiographical Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Story of Survival at the South Pole, which became a New York Times bestseller. The book was later adapted into Ice Bound: A Woman’s Survival at the South Pole, a 2003 CBS-TV movie starring Susan Sarandon, and in 2008 became the inspiration for an episode of Fox Network show House, “Frozen”, in which the team must somehow, via teleconference, diagnose and treat a stricken psychiatrist at the South Pole. The story of her rescue would be featured on The Weather Channel’s When Weather Changed History in the “Rescue from the South Pole” in January 2008.

Facts & Trivia

Julian Ranked on the list of most popular Physician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jerri Nielsen celebrates birthday on March 1 of every year.

She died at her home in Southwick, Massachusetts on June 23, 2009, at age 57. She was survived by her second husband, Tom Fitzgerald; her parents, Lorine and Phil Cahill; her brothers, Scott Cahill and Eric Cahill; and her children from her previous marriage: Julia, Ben and Alex.