As a medical oncologist at City of Hope Atlanta, Dr. Patricia Rich focuses primarily on treating lung cancer, sarcomas, and breast cancers, but also treats other solid tumors as well as head and neck cancers and melanoma. 

Board-certified in internal medicine, with a sub-specialty in medical oncology, she earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Florida, where she graduated cum laude. She then earned her medical degree from the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida, where she received several awards, including Outstanding Medical Student of the Year 2000 for Excellence in Internal Medicine. Dr. Rich also completed a fellowship in hematology-oncology at the University of South Florida, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, and a residency in internal medicine at University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. In 2005, she received the Foundation Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

When she originally joined City of Hope in 2006, Dr. Rich served as director of the City of Hope Lung Cancer Center at City of Hope Chicago until 2013, when she moved and held the same position at City of Hope Atlanta. In 2020, she briefly left City of Hope when an opportunity arose at an Atlanta-area thoracic oncology program—an experience that Dr. Rich says made her more well-rounded. But after two years, she was ready to return to City of Hope Atlanta as medical oncologist.