Nurse Practitioners in Arizona

Alicia's road to women's health started in a surprising place, pediatric care for medically complex children. That early experience taught her the value of listening carefully, thinking holistically, and never rushing a patient through an appointment. She earned her nursing degree from Chamberlain College of Nursing and later completed her family nurse practitioner training at Grand Canyon University, building expertise across women's health, family practice, and pediatric care. At MomDoc's Mercy Gilbert office, Alicia combines that broad clinical foundation with a warm, approachable style that puts patients at ease. She is the kind of provider who makes time for the extra question and who remembers the details that matter.

Becky's career in women's health spans over four decades, a timeline that says less about longevity and more about a provider who has never stopped finding meaning in the work. She started in nursing in the early 1980s, earned her Women's Health Nurse Practitioner certification in 1994, and has since practiced across a wide range of clinical settings in Arizona, from large OB/GYN groups to community-focused practices. Along the way, she became a dedicated educator, precepting nurse practitioner students from universities across the country and serving as an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University. Her teaching was recognized with ASU's Preceptor of the Year Award in 2008. Becky is also a sought-after speaker on menopause management, HRT, HPV vaccination, and contraceptive care, and she works as a legal consultant in women's health. What drives her, after all these years, is the privilege of caring for women across every phase of life. She and her family recently moved to the White Mountains, and she is thrilled to bring her experience to the Show Low community.

Hannah grew up in a household where women's health was just part of everyday conversation, her mother was a nurse, and those kitchen-table discussions planted a seed early. At Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that seed took root when Hannah joined AQ Believes, an organization advocating for women who are survivors of sexual violence. The experience clarified everything: she wanted to spend her career caring for women. Hannah headed to Vanderbilt University for her Master of Science in Nursing, training in obstetrics, cardiac stepdown, and psychiatric nursing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has also volunteered internationally, serving at a maternity hospital in Peru and on medical missions in the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, experiences that deepened her understanding of how profoundly access to care shapes outcomes. At MomDoc, Hannah brings that global perspective and that same early conviction to every patient she sees.

Lisa started her nursing career at the tiniest scale imaginable, the neonatal intensive care unit. At Phoenix Children's Hospital, she cared for critically ill newborns, including high-frequency ventilation patients and babies weighing under 1,000 grams, and attended high-risk deliveries to perform neonatal resuscitation. She had earlier gained experience in labor and delivery and medical telemetry at Tucson Medical Center, but it was the NICU that changed her trajectory. Working so closely with fragile newborns gave Lisa an urgent clarity: she wanted to reach women earlier, during pregnancy, when education and attentive care can alter outcomes before a baby ever arrives. That conviction sent her back to school at the University of Cincinnati, where she earned her master's in women's health nursing. Today, she brings a perspective shaped by the delivery room and the NICU, a provider who knows firsthand what is at stake and channels that knowledge into the kind of prenatal and well-woman care that helps patients feel informed, prepared, and supported.

Luciana grew up in New Mexico and earned her nursing degree at the University of New Mexico before making the move to Arizona, where she landed in the postpartum and couplet care unit at St. Joseph's Medical Center. Working with new mothers and their babies during those earliest, most vulnerable hours sparked something that would define the next chapter of her career. She returned to school at Arizona State University to become a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and has now been caring for women in that role for more than fifteen years. Luciana's approach centers on education and empowerment, she believes that when women truly understand their bodies and their options, they make the best decisions for their own health. "I love supporting women and empowering them with knowledge to establish their healthcare goals and needs," she says.

Rochelle's nursing career began in 1971 in Dayton, Ohio, and in the decades since, she has built one of the most distinctive resumes in the Valley. She was a student in only the second OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner class ever offered in Arizona, becoming the 202nd OB/GYN NP in the state at a time when the role was still being defined. She spent over sixteen years in reproductive medicine at Arizona Reproductive Medical Specialists, where she coordinated clinical drug trials, performed ultrasounds and endometrial biopsies, and walked alongside couples navigating infertility. That work earned her the Award of Excellence in the Field of Assisted Production and led to published research in reproductive medicine. Along the way, Rochelle also taught the next generation, serving as an Adjunct Associate Professor and PA Program Lecturer at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine's Southwestern Center in Phoenix. Earlier in her career, she cared for patients across obstetrics, antepartum, postpartum, gynecology, and the nursery at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, the kind of full-spectrum experience that gives her an intuitive sense of continuity most providers have to learn from textbooks. Rochelle joined MomDoc in 2013, bringing with her a career's worth of clinical wisdom and a deep understanding of what women need at every stage.

Terri's career spans more than three decades, and the breadth of it tells you something about how she practices: she has never stopped learning. Before women's health, there was pediatric nursing in Dallas, where she earned Pediatric Nurse of the Year honors and climbed to expert-level clinical status. Before that, there was neonatal intensive care, radiation oncology, and surgical nursing, each chapter adding another layer to her understanding of the female body across every stage of life. When Terri completed her graduate nurse practitioner program at Arizona State University, she brought all of that accumulated knowledge with her, logging clinical hours across high-risk obstetric offices and gynecological practices. Today, she has built a particular expertise in hormone replacement therapies, including bio-identical, compounded, and pellet approaches, a niche that demands both precision and the patience to listen carefully to what each patient is experiencing. What patients notice first about Terri is her directness. She is warm, often funny, and refreshingly honest. After 30-plus years at the bedside, she has little use for vague reassurances; she would rather give you the real picture and help you decide what comes next.

Theresa's nursing career began at BYU, where teaching human anatomy to fellow students revealed an early instinct she still carries: the drive to help people understand their own bodies. After earning her Family Nurse Practitioner degree from the University of Arizona, she built a clinical range that few practitioners can match, oncology, emergency medicine, neurology, surgery, and wilderness-based therapeutic care with the ANASAZI Foundation. What ties it all together is a thread of service. Whether providing in-home care for elderly patients in Arizona or delivering primary care and nutrition education to women and children in Haiti and Guatemala, Theresa gravitates toward the people most often overlooked. That same ethos shapes her work in women's health today, where she brings both breadth of experience and a quiet determination to make every patient feel seen.