Patricia Gatbonton is a full-time practising clinician in internal medicine and endocrinology. She is currently the chair of the Department of Medicine at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Manila, Philippines, where she was previously the training officer. Dr. Gatbonton is a past-president of the Philippine Society of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and was editor-in-chief of HealthNews (a magazine of the Manila Times Publishing Corporation). As well as being a member of several advisory boards and speakers’ bureaus for Merck Serono, Eli Lilly and Novartis, she enjoys travelling and speaking both internationally and in the Philippines. When she isn’t seeing patients, travelling or writing, she likes to go diving in the open waters of the Philippine archipelago and play the flute.