Who is Dr. Petra Illig?

Dr. Petra Illig is an aerospace medical physician in Alaska. She graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle) in 1981 and had received extensive training through the WAMI program in Alaska. After an internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, she became board certified in Emergency Medicine and spent the next 15 years as an ER doctor in the Pacific Northwest. She was happy to return to Alaska in 2001 to start her aviation medicine practice, where she continues to seeing pilots for FAA medical certification.