Gabriela M. Calderon was born and raised in Guatemala. She completed medical school at Universidad Rafael Landivar and discovered her passion for endocrinology during her final year, when she served as the sole physician in a small rural clinic caring for patients living in extreme poverty. Motivated to deepen her training and eventually give back to her country, she moved to the United States for an Internal Medicine residency at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. She is now a first year endocrinology fellow at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and aspires to be a knowledgeable, thoughtful, and empathetic general endocrinologist. Outside of medicine, Gabriela lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and their two French bulldog puppies. She enjoys walking her dogs, loves Peruvian food, and has a soft spot for chocolate ice cream. She is bilingual in Spanish and English and is known for her kindness, generosity, and enthusiastic spirit.