Alejandra González-Duarte received her medical degree in Mexico City and has two subspecialties in Internal Medicine and Neurology. After graduating, she underwent two post-doctoral fellowships in Neuroinfectious Diseases and Autonomic Disorders (Mount Sinai and NYU). She returned to Mexico in 2010 where she began diagnosing and treating patients with Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis, following a large cohort of patients. She was head of the Dysautonomia and Small Nerve Fiber Laboratory in Mexico until 2021 when she relocated to New York to work as Co-Director of the NYU Dysautonomia Center and Carl Seaman Family Clinical Associate Professor of Dysautonomia Treatment and Research in the Department of Neurology at Grossman School of Medicine.