Northern State University Athletics

Dr. Jami Jo (Fiechtner) Peterson, '97, B.S., Biology

Jami Jo Fiechtner earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Northern in 1997.

At NSU, Jami participated in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track. She is a nine-time All-NSIC performer, earning five certificates on the track and four in cross country, becoming the first NSU female athlete to earn four straight all-conference honors in cross country. Jami paced NSU’s 4x880-yard relay team to a seventh-place finish at the NAIA national championships in 1995, and finished her career as a four-time NSIC individual champion.

Jami earned All-Midwest Region honors in cross country in 1994, and was NSU’s Hildred Wolf Outstanding Athlete (Senior Female Athlete of the Year) award winner as a senior in 1996. Through the course of her career, Jami led the Wolves to two Midwest Region championships and a berth in the national championships field. She was also a member of two NSIC champion track and field teams and two runner-up finishes. NSU was ranked as high as 10th in the nation in track and field during that run. Jami also helped pace the Wolves to a trio of runner-up finishes on the cross country course.

Off the field, Jami was named an NSU Honor Athlete twice and earned NAIA Scholar All-America honors in 1995. A nine-time NSIC All-Academic selection, Jami was voted as the MVP of the cross country squad in 1992 and co-MVP in 1994 and 1995. Additionally, she was included in Leader of the Pack and Who’s Who Among College and Universities nominees.

Jami is a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy and works as an internal medicine physician at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, where she also is the department Head of Internal Medicine.

Jami has been a 14-year member of the American Legion Post #11 and contributed a year of volunteer service to Open Door Free Clinic. She has been a member of the Minnesota Academy Physician Assistants; volunteer preceptor for physician assistant students; and guest lecturer on a multitude of topics in primary care.

A veteran of Operation: Iraqi Freedom, Jami held the rank 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and has an Army commendation medal and an Army Achievement Medal. She was also recognized during her service in the army for excellence in physical fitness. In 2008,  she graduated from Medical School at Des Moines University on a United States Navy Scholarship. She did her residency training in Internal Medicine at Naval Medical Center San Diego in San Diego. In her first post-graduate year of medical trainging,  she recieved the "Towering Interno Award" for the intern whose performance best demonstrates humanism in patient care, academic accomplishments and commitment to Navy core values.  She served as the internal medicine chief of residents for the 2011-2012 academic year and received the Captain John Mitas Ahievement Award for her contributions to the Naval Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program and received a Navy Achievment Medal.

She lives in Jacksonville, Fla., with her spouse, Kelley, who is a major in the United States Army Reserves.