Dr. Gonzalez attended medical school in Colombia and moved to the U.S. to continue her training. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, and a Fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. She then went to the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to specialize in breast cancer as she was selected as the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Fellow. Dr. Gonzalez stayed at M.D. Anderson faculty and works exclusively with breast cancer patients and in breast cancer research. She is interested in aggressive types of breast cancer and is one of the inflammatory breast cancer specialists. Her research focuses on the development of markers to predict response to treatments using functional proteomics and is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Susan G. Komen Foundation. She serves as a member of the steering committee of The United States – Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research.