Pato Silveyra-Rotary Helped Me Be A Science Leader

Former Hershey Rotarian Pato Silveyra will share how Rotary helped her to become a Scientific Leader.

Patricia (Pato) Silveyra is currently at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Associate professor and Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Term Scholar, Dr. Patricia Silveyra was appointed director of the Biobehavioral Lab.

Silveyra joined the SON from Penn State University, where she started her career as basic and translational science researcher. Silveyra received her Master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, followed by a Rotary postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State College of Medicine. In 2013, she took a research faculty position as Assistant Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at Penn State University, where she was a scholar of their Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers on Women’s Health (BIRCWH) NIH K12 program. In 2018, she was promoted to Associate professor of Pediatrics at Penn State, where she maintains a position as adjunct faculty.

Silveyra serves on a number of national boards and committees, including the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD), and the recently formed “New Voices” program of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). She is also a member of several professional organizations including the American Thoracic Society, The American Physiological Society, and the Society of Toxicology.