Doctor Finds Welcoming Community, Rewarding Career in Lincoln

“I would not pick another place to work,” said Dr. Julianna Peters, referring to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she has started a career in physical therapy.

As a young healthcare professional with sought-after skills, Dr. Peters could have chosen to work almost anywhere. She preferred to be somewhere familiar.  That meant choosing either Colorado, Kansas, or Nebraska. She had lived in Denver, Colorado until age 13 and then moved to Topeka, Kansas where she graduated high school. She then attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), before returning to Kansas for her doctoral program at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

“I really debated where to apply for my physical therapy license,” Dr. Peters recalled. “I knew I was either going to Kansas or Nebraska. At one point, I had considered Colorado, but I wrote it off because Colorado is so expensive, and I had a lot of student loans.”

Ultimately, she selected Nebraska. A strong sense of community, based on relationships she had built during college, was the biggest factor that drew her back to Lincoln.

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