Anne Rutkowski

Co-founder and board member

United States of America

Dr Anne Rutkowski is a practising board-certified emergency medicine physician in Los Angeles. Anne’s daughter has congenital muscular dystrophy, subtype dystroglycanopathy.

Anne graduated from the University of California Irvine Medical School, elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She attended Bryn Mawr College as an undergraduate, graduating Magna cum laude with Honors in Biology. Prior to attending medical school, Anne taught for 3 years in an inner city elementary school in Los Angeles, as part of Teach for America. She would like to shrink the diagnostic odyssey, see improvements and standardization of guidelines in medical care for all patients with CMD and a focused approach to identifying therapeutic targets. As a former educator, education and improved disease awareness are two further areas of focus for Cure CMD.