She studied for her Ph.D. in Psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has been a psychologist at the Obesity and Eating Behavior Disorders Clinic of the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán since the year 2000.
Currently, she is the President of Obesidades, a non-profit civil society organization whose objective is to change the narrative of obesity and its treatment in Mexico. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI-I). She is a professor in the Postgraduate Course of High Specialty in Obesity (UNAM and the Ministry of Health) and of the Medicine Degree (UNAM).