
Patricia Rivera
Actress
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Oct 13, 2026
ATS Breathe Easy - ATS 2026: Navigating Your Career Path with Pivots and Purpose
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2:06Patricia RiveraGUEST
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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2:17Patricia RiveraGUEST
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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2:31Patricia RiveraGUEST
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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2:48Patricia RiveraGUEST
And around that time, I met my husband, my future husband, and he was training.
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2:54Patricia RiveraGUEST
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.
