After working together on a particularly difficult case, they end up sleeping together, but Ava tells Connor that it was unwise and they shouldn't do it again. Marvin Jaffrey, comes to Chicago Med for a complicated heart surgery and publicly demeans Ava, Connor vouches for her skill as a surgeon (' Down by Law').Īfter Robin Charles and Connor break up, Ava is amused by Connor's propensity to engage in reckless and casual sex, especially when he ends up diagnosing one of his one-night-stands with a heart condition, bringing her to Med for surgery.

However, over time, Connor and Ava learn to work together (' Naughty or Nice'). Latham observes that both Ava and Connor seem to enjoy sparring with each other. Although Connor professes to find her irritating, Dr. Ava does not hesitate to take advantage of the fact that Connor is struggling with personal stresses, including managing his girlfriend Robin Charles' health condition, to undercut him professionally. Latham into giving her more prestigious surgeries, and frequently teasing, and mocking Connor, while also making clear that she is attracted to him, via repeated invitations to dinner, coffee, or drinks. She immediately sees Connor as her rival, often manipulating Dr. (' Love Hurts.') Ava immediately establishes herself as both, highly competent, as well as highly competitive. She studied at Groote Schuur Hospital, a famous teaching hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, and was mentored by Dr. Connor Rhodes, that Ava had been his first choice over Connor for the fellowship. Ava Bekker, a South African surgeon, joins Chicago Med as a cardiothoracic fellow under Dr.

When she is found out, she commits suicide by slashing her carotid artery, causing Conner to decide to leave Chicago at the beginning of season 5.ĭr. During the course of season 4, when Connor starts to rebuff her romantic advances, Ava starts to torment him with increasingly elaborate schemes and ploys, culminating in her killing his father Cornelius with an overdose of insulin. Ava is unwilling to let Connor go, pursuing him aggressively. They date, but eventually break up after Connor discovers that Ava slept with his father in order to gain funding for Connor's pet project, a hybrid cardiac operating room in the emergency ward. They eventually become romantically involved. Latham and frequently one-upping each other.

Marvin Jaffrey.Īva and her co-fellow Connor Rhodes initially dislike each other, but later develop a healthy sense of competition, vying for the approval of their mentor Dr. She worked under the mentorship of world-famous heart surgeon Dr. Before coming to complete her cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Gaffney, Ava worked at Groote Schuur Hospital, a teaching hospital located in Cape Town. Ava was born to unknown South African parents in Cape Town, South Africa.

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