Faculty
Daubney Boland, PhD
Daubney Harper Boland, Ph.D. is a psychologist in integrated primary care in Southern New Mexico. She is a Behavioral Science faculty member for the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program (SNMFMRP). She is a CO-PI for a HRSA grant developing psychology in primary care and is adjunct faculty at New Mexico State University. She works closely with local FQHCs and school-based health centers to integrate doctoral-level psychology students… Read More »
Dolores Gomez, MD
Dolores Gomez, MD is originally from Dell City, Texas (population 600) and moved to Las Cruces in 1986. She received her Bachelor of Science from New Mexico State University and received her MD from the University of New Mexico. She returned to Las Cruces and completed her residency in Family Medicine and is an alumnus of the Southern NM Family Medicine Residency, Class of 2001. Dr. Gomez left Las Cruces after residency… Read More »
Kathleen Hales, MD
Kathleen Hales, MD graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in one of the first classes in the primary care curriculum. She completed residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin rural program in Kenosha. Raised in the Silver City area, Dr. Hales returned to New Mexico in 1989 to practice family medicine. Since that time, she has been part owner of a primary care clinic, a locums provider, and the winter physician at McMurdo Station for the United States Antarctic Program… Read More »
Patrick Leung, Pharm.D
Patrick Leung, Pharm.D., BCPS, PhC Patrick Leung, Pharm.D, is the Manager of Pharmacy Clinical Services at Memorial Medical Center (MMC) and a faculty at Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency since 2002. He is also a credentialed pharmacist clinician at MMC Anticoagulation Management Service. He works collaboratively with family medicine team to manage inpatient and outpatient medication therapy. He rounds daily with a multi-disciplinary… Read More »
Davena Norris, Pharm.D, DCPS, PHC
Davena Norris is a Clinical Pharmacist at Memorial Medical Center (MMC) in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Upon graduating from the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy in 2012, she completed a PGY1 pharmacy residency at the Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System (SAVAHCS) in Tucson. In her current position at MMC, Dr. Norris works collaboratively with family medicine residents and faculty to manage medication therapy in both inpatient… Read More »
Mary Alice Scott, PH.D
Dr. Scott is associate professor of anthropology and graduate faculty in the integrated behavioral health program at New Mexico State University. She is also adjunct research faculty at the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program. She received her B.A. in Women’s Studies from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Kentucky… Read More »
Donna Madrid, C-TAGME
Donna Madrid is a Las Cruces native with extensive administrative experience in community agencies, government offices, and health care organizations. She has worked with the Robyn Institute on Violence, the US Department of Corrections, Medico-Psychological Services, and Memorial Medical Center… Read More »
Heather Owens
Heather Dominguez Owens MD is a proud native of Las Cruces and graduated from NMSU with Honors with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry in 1997. She earned a Doctor of Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX in 2001. She completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She prides herself in completing a research project and having her first child, Lauren, while completing her training… Read More »
Danielle Fitzsimmons-Pattison, MD
Dr. Pattison is clinical faculty at the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program (SNMFMRP) in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She received her MD from University of New Mexico and completed her FM residency at SNMFMRP. After working as faculty for 3 years she went on to complete a fellowship in Global Health and Refugee Care at the Family Health Center of Worcester and University of Massachusetts Medical Center. She has since returned to the faculty… Read More »
Amanda Provencio, MD
Amanda Provencio, MD, was born and raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico where she graduated from Mayfield Highschool, Go Trojans! She obtained her Bachelor of Science from the University of Oklahoma and attended Medical School at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Dr. Provencio graduated medical school with honors, being inducted to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and was selected at the recipient of the Gold-Headed Cane Award for her graduating class… Read More »
Joanna Rachelson, MD
Joanna Rachelson was born and raised in beautiful Taos, New Mexico. After high school she attended the University of San Francisco and received her BA in Comparative Literature with a minor in Sociology. She decided to pursue a career in medicine after doing various volunteer work. She received her MD from American University of Antigua, and through clinical rotations she found a joy and passion for family medicine… Read More »
