A Greene County native was recently hired as a new physician at Greene County Medical Center.

Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Mary Pedersen will be working at the Greene County Family Medicine Clinic starting next month. She will provide services focusing on family medicine, pediatrics, adolescent medicine, adolescent wellness, physicals and immunizations, and much more.

Pedersen earned her bachelor’s degree in exercise science-health promotion from Central College and then went on to get her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Mercy College of Health Sciences in Des Moines. Pedersen has served as a registered nurse in pediatrics at MercyOne Hospital, as well as at the medical center in Jefferson in the medical-surgical unit as a registered nurse. She spent the last eight years as a school nurse with the Greene County School District, before returning to earn her master’s degree in family nurse practitioner from Clarkson College in Omaha, Nebraska earlier this year. 

Pedersen will begin scheduling appointments on October 18th by contacting the clinic at 515-386-0500.