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Dr. Shana Drake-Lavelle is an outpatient family medicine doctor at an FQHC in Albuquerque, NM. She also works on Labor and Delivery at the University of New Mexico. She is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and the University of New Mexico Family Medicine Residency.

Dr. Drake-LaVelle's clinical interests include maternal and pediatric health from a family medicine, "full family" perspective; clinical efficiency; and provider and patient wellness.

She is resident member of the American Academy of Family Physicians.