Jerri Nielsen

Jerri Linn Nielsen (b. March 1, 1952) is an American medical doctor and author (with ghostwriter Maryanne Vollers) of the autobiographical book Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Story of Survival at the South Pole, which relates the story of her discovery by self-examination that she had developed breast cancer while serving at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station during the Antarctic winter of 1999.

She had to rely on self-administered chemotherapy using supplies from a risky July cargo drop, then was picked up in an equally dangerous mid-October landing.

In 2003, Dr. Nielsen was selected as Irish-American of the Year.

She is divorced.