Dr. Daniela Varela Luquetti is a clinical geneticist. She pursued additional experience in research through a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health. She joined the faculty at the School of Medicine of the University of Washington (UW) in 2013 becoming an Associate Professor in 2019. During her time at the UW, she designed and conducted multi-center studies, funded by the NIH, on the genetic and non-genetic causes of craniofacial congenital conditions. In 2021, she joined the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the Division of Rare Diseases and Medical Genetics (DRMDG) as a clinical reviewer providing her 20 years' experience as a clinical scientist in rare diseases. She has served as a Team Leader and is currently a Senior Clinical Reviewer at DRDMG.