Doctors in San Tan Valley, AZ

Abbey grew up in the snow country of Wyoming, and her journey into healthcare began with occupational therapy at Northwest College before she shifted toward health sciences at the University of Wyoming. That foundation led her to A.T. Still University, where she completed her Physician Assistant Studies. What draws Abbey to women's health is the breadth of it, she thrives on the variety of seeing patients through every stage of life, from contraception counseling and fertility questions to navigating menopause. She especially loves living and working in the San Tan Valley community, where she feels she can make a real difference in a growing area. Abbey is committed to continued learning and practicing a high standard of medicine for every patient who walks through her door.

Audra's road to midwifery wasn't a straight line, and she wouldn't have it any other way. Originally from Petersburg, Virginia, she moved to North Carolina in 1998 and spent years working as a Licensed Practical Nurse before a pivotal realization took hold: caring for women was not just a job, it was her calling. That clarity propelled her through her BSN at Fayetteville State University and into the nurse-midwifery program at East Carolina University, where she trained across the full scope of midwifery care at facilities throughout North Carolina. Her years of nursing experience before midwifery school mean she comes to the birth room with a depth of clinical instinct that can't be taught in a classroom. Audra is also someone who thinks about the bigger picture, she served as a Student Legislative Contact for the National Governmental Affairs Committee of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, advocating for policies that expand access to midwifery care. Now in Arizona, she's thrilled to bring that experience and advocacy to the families she serves at MomDoc.

Brynea's path to midwifery started in high school, when she met a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner who left a lasting impression. After high school, she headed south to escape the cold, earning her nursing degree at Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma, where she also met her husband, James. As a new nurse, she worked alongside a group of nurse-midwives whose approach to labor and birth care changed everything for her. Brynea went on to earn her midwifery degree from Frontier Nursing University in 2014, bringing over six years of nursing experience in maternal/newborn and labor and delivery, with a specialty in high-risk obstetrics. Her clinical journey spans hospitals across Oklahoma, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C. area, including Hillcrest Medical Center, Georgetown University Hospital, and Sibley Memorial Hospital. Brynea has also volunteered on medical mission trips to Uganda and Mexico, experiences that deepened her belief that every woman, regardless of circumstance, deserves attentive, respectful care during birth.

Cassandra was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, and after earning her nursing degree at BYU-Idaho, she made a beeline back to the desert, Idaho winters were not for her. She spent nine rewarding years as a registered nurse, but it was working alongside a home birth midwife that changed everything. Watching women receive that kind of unhurried, deeply personal care sparked something, and Cassandra knew she had found her calling. She enrolled at Frontier Nursing University to earn her midwifery degree and hasn't looked back. At MomDoc's Queen Creek office, she brings that same philosophy to every patient: birth is not just a medical event, it is one of the most transformative experiences of a woman's life, and she wants to be right there for it.

Before Dr. Shaw ever set foot in a medical school, she was running calls as a volunteer paramedic with the Fredericksburg Rescue Squad and teaching math and science to middle schoolers. Both roles shaped the physician she would become: someone who stays calm under pressure and knows how to explain complicated things in plain language. She studied mathematics and biology at Mary Washington College, earned her MD from Eastern Virginia Medical School, and completed her OB/GYN residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, where she served as Administrative Chief Resident. Her research on thrombophilia-related pregnancy loss and paternal ethnicity as a preeclampsia risk factor has been published in two of the field's leading journals. In Arizona, Dr. Shaw has become a physician leader, steadily taking on roles that let her improve care not just for her own patients but across entire hospital systems. In January 2026, she began a two-year term as Chief of Staff at Banner Ironwood Medical Center, and she chairs MomDoc's Quality Assurance Committee. Through it all, she remains a clinician first, still energized by the daily work of guiding women through pregnancy and gynecologic care.

Emily grew up in Mesa watching her mother work as a labor and delivery nurse, and the pull toward women's health was there long before she had a name for it. She started her own path at Arizona State University with a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, then worked as a medical scribe in a Scottsdale emergency department and as a newborn hearing screener at Banner Gateway, each role bringing her closer to the clinical career she wanted. PA school took her to Hofstra University in New York, where she earned a National Health Service Corps Scholarship and rotated through OB/GYN at Mount Sinai South Nassau, emergency medicine at NYU Langone, and surgery at Northwell Health. Those experiences confirmed what growing up around her mom's work had already taught her: that the moments surrounding birth and women's health are some of the most meaningful in medicine. Now back home in Arizona, Emily brings East Coast training and a hometown connection to her patients at MomDoc.

Keli grew up in Los Gatos, a small town in Northern California's Bay Area. She left home when she enlisted in the Air Force and spent ten years as an avionics technician, repairing F-16s and F-111s in England, Korea, and Las Vegas. It was in Korea that she met her husband through a running club called the Hash Hound Harriers, they have been together 25 years now. After the military, Keli's career took another turn. She earned her nursing degree and gained extensive labor and delivery experience as an RN at hospitals across Arizona, including Banner Ironwood, Phoenix Baptist, Chandler Regional, Saint Joseph's, and Banner Gateway. It was at Phoenix Baptist that a group of midwives she worked alongside encouraged her to take the next step. She earned her midwifery degree from Frontier Nursing University in 2013 and later completed her Doctorate of Nursing Practice at Duke University. Keli brings a special focus to perinatal loss and bereavement support, natural childbirth, and Centering Pregnancy group prenatal care, the kind of work that asks a provider to be both clinically skilled and deeply present, something her unusual journey from fighter jets to the birth room uniquely prepared her for.

Marta took the long way to women's health, and that winding path is exactly what makes her standout. She started as a biology major at Hope College in Michigan, then earned a master's in environmental science at the University of Illinois and spent a decade at Booz Allen Hamilton leading federal environmental projects. Somewhere along the way, she realized the work she found most meaningful was the kind that happened face-to-face, not behind a desk. Marta headed to Chatham University in Pittsburgh for her Physician Assistant Studies, and it was during her clinical rotations at Zubritzky and Christy OB/GYN Associates, assisting with cesarean sections, vaginal births, and gynecological surgeries, that everything clicked. She brings a rare combination of scientific rigor, real-world problem-solving, and the steady calm of someone who once navigated federal bureaucracy for a living. Now she channels all of that into the care of her patients.