Pilar Guatibonza Moreno, MD

MD Clinical Geneticist, with experience in clinical practice, genetic counseling, molecular diagnostics and precision medicine. She reviews the health writing on this site before it publishes.

I started my medical career young. The more I trained, the more I noticed a pattern: I was always arriving late. Late for the patient with a heart attack caused by atherosclerosis that had been building for decades. Late for the patient on dialysis because of a preventable disease. Late for entire families who carried a hidden cancer risk no one had ever checked. In clinical care, arriving late is the norm.

Specializing in medical genetics showed me a way to arrive early, and I kept asking myself how to bring this knowledge to more people, before disease appears. The answer came from combining genetics, preventive medicine, and precision medicine, a field that now has a name: longevity.