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Patricia Valenti, MD, MBA

Dr. Valenti was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in February 23, 1960 at 8:45AM. She was raised and educated in Brazil until 1986 when she graduated from the Medical School, at the Federal University in Minas Gerais. Motivated by her vision of professional career in the United States, she immigrated to the US in the late 1987 when she was later accepted as a Visiting Scholar in the Perinatal Center at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the Columbia-Presbyterian hospital in New York City. Harold Fox, MD headed the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at the time, and he mentored Dr. Valenti throughout her term at the department. Dr. Valenti became well experienced in data gathering and analysis as she contributed to the NIH funded Perinatal Center AIDS/HIV epidemiological studies on pregnant women from NYC. As Dr. Valenti's involvement with the Perinatal Center AIDS/HIV epidemiological studies evolved, there was a need then to further obtain formal training in epidemiology. She was then accepted into the epidemiology program provided by the University of California at San Francisco and at Berkeley. Upon completion of that program, Dr. Valenti was subsequently accepted as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Studies at the University of California at San Francisco to study the Perinatal Transmission of the HIV virus in the Pregnant positive population from San Francisco Bay Area. These studies led to her first publication in a peer reviewed journal - The Obstetrics and Gynecology Journal of North America. ref.