Dr. Aguilar is a member of several professional societies, including the National Stroke Association, the American Heart Association, and the Arizona Medical Association. She is presiding chair of the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke Study Section SPS3 Event Adjudication Committee and journal reviewer for Cerebrovascular Disease, Intensive Care Medicine, Stroke, Cephalagia, Journal of Neurology, and The Lancet.  She has presented her research at the international, national, and regional levels and authored a number of peer-reviewed articles and abstracts, which appear in Annals of Internal Medicine, Neurology, and Stroke.

Dr. Aguilar earned her medical degree at Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud - Universidad C.E.S., in Medellin, Colombia. She completed her internship, chief residency in neurology, and fellowship in vascular neurology all within the Department of Medicine at University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Aguilar has been consistently recognized for her academic achievement: she was a "Top Five" student at medical school, winner of the American Academy of Neurology's Residents in Academic Medicine Scholarship Award, and awarded an NIH/NMA Fellowship in Academic Medicine. She joined the faculty at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in 2006. At Mayo Clinic, Dr. Aguilar has received the Teacher of the Year 2009-2010 neurology award by the Neurology Residents.

Dr. Aguilar is board certified in Neurology/Vascular Neurology. Her research interests include stroke prevention in women and the young, hemorrhagic stroke, and stroke evidence-based medicine.