Laura Goetz, MD
Preventive Medicine, Longevity and Healthy Aging Specialist located in Santa Monica, CA
Meet Dr. Laura Goetz
Dr. Laura Goetz is the founder of N-of-1 Medicine, a precision preventive medicine practice in Santa Monica, CA. She is also the co-founder of Net. bio, an N-of-1 clinical trials company focused on longevity and healthy aging. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
She spent the first 15 years of her career as a general surgeon, with a focus on cancer operations. She worked in both academic and community hospitals and treated a wide variety of people from diverse backgrounds. What she came to realize, however, was that regardless of an individual’s background or place in life, many of the diseases they suffered from were preventable.
Also, she realized many people who lived healthy lives and followed all of their doctor’s recommendations would somehow still end up with a preventable illness. Something was wrong with our healthcare system at the most fundamental level; our knowledge of how to care for patients has been rooted in a population-level or average approach to medicine, but the ‘average’ person doesn’t exist.
She decided to leave the surgery and become a preventive medicine physician, one who could understand the unique individual traits and features of her patients. She especially wanted to find ways to incorporate new precision medicine technologies into everyday preventive care. She studied public health and genomics at the University of California, Berkeley, and went on to work at Scripps Clinic and the Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego.
She subsequently joined the Translational Genomics Research Institute, where she designed precision medicine research studies using the N-of-1 approach. N-of-1 Medicine is the culmination of her broad experience in different clinical and research roles, and aims to set precedents; merging the best aspects of both scientific and clinical approaches to improve and sustain each unique individual’s “whole person” health.
For more information and to schedule an appointment with Dr. Laura Goetz, please visit:
https://www.n-of-1medicine.com
Dr. Laura Goetz is the founder of N-of-1 Medicine, a precision preventive medicine practice in Santa Monica, CA. She is also the co-founder of Net. bio, an N-of-1 clinical trials company focused on longevity and healthy aging. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
She spent the first 15 years of her career as a general surgeon, with a focus on cancer operations. She worked in both academic and community hospitals and treated a wide variety of people from diverse backgrounds. What she came to realize, however, was that regardless of an individual’s background or place in life, many of the diseases they suffered from were preventable.
Also, she realized many people who lived healthy lives and followed all of their doctor’s recommendations would somehow still end up with a preventable illness. Something was wrong with our healthcare system at the most fundamental level; our knowledge of how to care for patients has been rooted in a population-level or average approach to medicine, but the ‘average’ person doesn’t exist.
She decided to leave the surgery and become a preventive medicine physician, one who could understand the unique individual traits and features of her patients. She especially wanted to find ways to incorporate new precision medicine technologies into everyday preventive care. She studied public health and genomics at the University of California, Berkeley, and went on to work at Scripps Clinic and the Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego.
She subsequently joined the Translational Genomics Research Institute, where she designed precision medicine research studies using the N-of-1 approach. N-of-1 Medicine is the culmination of her broad experience in different clinical and research roles, and aims to set precedents; merging the best aspects of both scientific and clinical approaches to improve and sustain each unique individual’s “whole person” health.
For more information and to schedule an appointment with Dr. Laura Goetz, please visit:
https://www.n-of-1medicine.com