Cristina LePort
Dr. Cristina LePort was born in Bologna, Italy, where she attended medical school before emigrating to the USA to complete her Internal Medicine residency at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn and her Cardiology fellowship at West Los Angeles VA/UCLA.
She has been practicing medicine for more than 30 years as Dr. Cristina Rizza.
She currently resides in Orange County, California, with her husband, Peter LePort.
They have three grown children and three grandchildren.
Dissection is her first published novel.
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