WVU graduate Patrice today is the only African-American woman to be president of the American Medical Association.

And it began when her father took Patrice from Bluefield to Morgantown to watch a WVU football game.

She fell in love with the place, as I did and many other have. "Country Roads" is more than a song. It's a siren sound of West Virginia.

The former majorette became a renown psychiatrist.

Read the WVU Magazine story for yourself by going to https://magazine.wvu.edu/stories/2018/11/28/the-doctor-is-in?fbclid=IwAR3wIgN5mCscSjNwEF11Q1qTg_RubVc3L6UjoRh8fWo48OQITG2K66Grjbg