Cristina LePort Cristina Rizza-LePort, M.D. Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Former assistant professor of Medicine, University of California Irvine. Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of Genescient. Author of DISSECTION, a medical-political thriller. Dr. Cristina Rizza-LePort was born in Bologna, Italy. She graduated Summa cum Laude from the University of Bologna medical school and then completed her medical 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, Nuclear Cardiology, and has been practicing medicine for more than forty years. Dr. Rizza is also the Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of Genescient, a biotech company devoted to genetic research on aging, where she developed Botanical drugs combinations based on Genescient’s IP.