Patricia Herrera

Patricia Herrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela. At the age of 18 she moved to Bogota, Colombia to start her undergraduate studies in Dentistry at Pontifical Xaverian University. During her studies, she was part of the university´s tennis team and participated in singing contests of the School of Dentistry as a hobby. She was also student representative, university academic environment representative, member and secretary of the seedbed projects at Pontifical Xaverian University School of Dentistry. At the end of her studies, she had the privilege to do an undergraduate internship at the University of Murcia and San Antonio Catholic University both located in Spain as an undergraduate clinical intern and research assistant. Patricia has always been interested in the pharmacology and therapeutics area, that is why she did courses related such as “Drug interactions in Dentistry” at University of Valencia, Spain and “Current Pharmacology in Dentistry”. She came back to Bogota to finish her studies and receive her dental degree from Pontifical Xaverian University in 2016 and now she is a research assistant at the school of dentistry of the university.