Lilianna (Lily) Suarez, MD, MPH, is a Research Fellow in the Division of General Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she joined the fellowship in 2026. She is a physician-scientist with a passion for improving child health through innovative, family-centered approaches to obesity treatment and chronic disease prevention. Her research focuses on pediatric weight management, medical weight-loss interventions, clinical trials, implementation science, and the ways social and environmental factors influence health outcomes for children and families. Dr. Suarez earned her bachelor of science degree in biomedical science with a minor in global public health from The Ohio State University. She subsequently completed her master of public health degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and doctor of medicine at Duke University before completing combined internal medicine-pediatrics residency at Duke University. A central theme in Dr. Suarez's scholarship is the importance of caregivers and families in supporting healthy behaviors and sustainable lifestyle change. By combining rigorous clinical research with implementation science, she seeks to develop interventions that are not only effective, but also practical and scalable across health care settings.