Dr Pillay-Fuentes Lorente obtained an MBChB degree at Walter Sisulu University in 2010.
Thereafter, she completed a 2-year internship at King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban and worked as a community service medical officer at the former Gordonia Hosptial, Upington.
Dr Pillay-Fuentes Lorente then worked as a medical officer over a 4 year period in Internal Medicine at Dr Harry Surtie Hospital, Upington before completing a 2 year post-graduate diploma in Medicines Development between 2016 – 2017 with the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Stellenbosch University.
She obtained a Masters of Medicine in Clinical Pharmacology and completed a 4-year clinical pharmacology training programme before qualifying as a Specialist Clinical Pharmacologist in 2021.