Eliana Otero-Bell, MD

 I grew up in Northern New Mexico and completed my undergraduate and medical school at UNM, and am so excited to have the opportunity to stay for residency! I am grateful for the opportunity to work with all types of patients of all different ages and backgrounds, each with a unique story. Throughout medical school, I realized what a privilege it is to care for people, working with them to identify what exactly it is that the medical system can provide, while also addressing social needs and advocating on behalf of our patients and for the health of our communities, and learned that oftentimes the best medicine is not “medicine” at all. I plan on becoming a full spectrum rural physician and to one day work in a critical access hospital, providing primary care, with specific focus on obstetrics, emergency stabilization and procedural medicine. I am truly honored to be staying in my home state working with the population I care so deeply about and am excited to learn so many things over the next few years that will prepare me for life as a Family Medicine Physician in rural New Mexico!