Cristina LePort MD, FACC

Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder Genescient

Dr. Cristina Rizza-LePort was born in Bologna, Italy. She graduated Summa cum Laude from the University of Bologna and completed her training at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Nuclear Cardiology, and has been practicing medicine for more than forty years. She is the bestselling Author of DISSECTION and CHANGE of HEART, medical thrillers. Cristina LePort currently resides in Orange County, California, with her husband Peter LePort.