Patti Nemeth, MD, PhD, received her PhD from UCLA Medical School and then began a professional career of teaching anatomy and conducting biomedical research. A part of her graduate training was an expedition to Senegal, Africa to capture and perform surgery on epileptic baboons in the wild, sponsored by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France. For her post-doctoral work, as the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship from the German government, she attended the Goethe-Institut of language in preparation for her scientific research and teaching at the University of Konstanz in southwestern Germany. In her postdoctoral years she collaborated with scientists at the University College London as well as with colleagues at other European laboratories.On her return to the United States, she served on the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine where she taught human anatomy to medical students and established her own research laboratory. Her objective was to advance the understanding of the physiology and biochemistry of energy metabolism in muscle under various physiological and disease conditions. One of the projects was done in collaboration with NASA and the Russian Biosputnik space program to explore the effects of microgravity on muscle in space travel. Her research laboratory was federally funded by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. She has presented her findings at various professional symposia around the world and has published many refereed scientific papers and book chapters.A love of science and desire to help others prompted her to enrich her career with the study of clinical medicine. She returned to the classroom and received her MD degree at Washington University School of Medicine, followed by a residency in neurology and a fellowship in neuromuscular diseases. She developed a clinical practice group of neurologists in partnership with a well-established neurosurgical group at Saint Luke's hospital in Saint Louis and received several honors as a practicing physician nominated by her peers. In semi-retirement, she found further reward in treating patients in underserved and indigenous communities of New Mexico.