Abstract
Cecilia Guillermo had initially considered specialising in neurology when she qualified as a doctor in 1990. “However, after working with a neurologist in one of my rotations far from Montevideo I saw that the outcomes for patients were not very promising,” she tells The Lancet Haematology. However, during that same posting, she treated a child with severe anaemia who was later diagnosed with leukaemia, and, on returning to Montevideo, did a rotation in the Hematology Department at the Hospital de Clinicas (Montevideo, Uruguay). “That was to be the start of my 30-year love affair with haematology, and today I am professor and head of that same department, where I am proud to lead a team of 14 all-female physicians.”
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