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Patricia Rivera

Patricia Rivera

Actress

Oct 13, 2026

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... with chemotherapy-related drugs.
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I worked with my mentor, the late Dorothy White, and my goal was to work with her, work under her, work with her for the rest of my career.
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During my fellowship, Dorothy had surgery, heart surgery, and had a very serious complication where she was, um, left with essentially very poor heart function, and she had to undergo a heart transplant.
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So she was out for about, um, a year and a half to two years, and she came back the, my last year, in the year that I was a first-year attending, but we had lost a lot of time, and I had lost a lot of traction on my research because she was not there.
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And around that time, I met my husband, my future husband, and he was training.
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He was finishing his training, and he was recruited to UNC in North Carolina, which is where we ended up because we had just gotten married, but UNC didn't have a position for me.
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