Dr. Laura H. Goetz is the Director of the Precision Medicine Research Clinic at HonorHealth Research Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona. A board-certified surgeon, preventive medicine physician, and obesity medicine specialist, she brings over two decades of experience spanning cancer treatment, prevention, genomics, and clinical research.
Dr. Goetz earned her MD from the University of Minnesota and her MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from UC Berkeley. She completed residencies in General Surgery at Northwestern University and Preventive Medicine at UC San Diego, along with fellowship training in Colorectal Surgery at the University of Minnesota. She has held faculty and leadership positions at UCSF, Scripps Clinic, the Translational Genomics Research Institute, City of Hope, and Human Longevity, Inc., where she served as Head of Phenotyping. She currently serves as Medical Deputy for the XPRIZE Healthspan Competition.
Dr. Goetz is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Diplomat of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, a combat veteran who served in Iraq as a U.S. Army surgeon, and contributor to cancer prevention policy through the California Department of Public Health. Her peer-reviewed publications span precision medicine, cancer genomics, biological aging, N-of-1 trial design, and the microbiome. She is also a Research Professor at the ASU John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering.