U.S. National Institutes of Health

Melvina L. McCabe, MD — general medicine (family), education (teaching), internal medicine (geriatrics)

Courtesy Melvina L. McCabe, MD

Melvina McCabe (b. 1951) brings a spiritual and cultural perspective to her care of the elderly. As director of geriatrics in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, she is an advocate for the underserved. “At times,” she says, “I think that perhaps there is a predestined path for us to take that is identified for us by the Creator.”

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