Michelle Rivera MD is a Harvard trained physician-scientist with over 24 years of clinical experience who is passionate about ensuring women's access to yearly screening mammograms beginning at age 40. She has advocated for this life saving screening tool by creating a short documentary entitled "Every Woman Needs to Know," through congressional lobbying, and via grass roots advocacy through the Facebook Page @AmericanWomenUniteforBreastCancerScreening.

Dr . Rivera is also the founder of Phenom Pharmaceuticals, whose mission is to create disease-preventing products.

Dr. Rivera began painting in her Charlotte, NC garage art studio in 2005. She quickly realized that it provided an important outlet from her emotionally charged career as a breast imager. Over time, Dr. Rivera has created "Michelle Rivera Original Art," a brand of happy, colorful original art pieces and prints that are widely sold online, at most big box stores, and at local shops and galleries. In Charlotte, NC Michelle Rivera Original Art can be found at Cotswold Marketplace and Allison Sprock Fine Art.