Annechien Stuursma (Anniek) is a medical doctor at an emergency department in Frisia, The Netherlands, as well as a PhD student at the department of Epidemiology and Obstetrics & Gynaecology of the University Medical Center Groningen. She studied medicine at the University of Groningen and graduated during her Bachelor with an Honours degree in 2016. She combined her masters with the first years of her PhD, a so-called MD-PhD trajectory, and finished her masters degree in 2021. Her current research focusses on the consequences of risk-reducing oophorectomy in female BRCA1/2 GPV carriers.