Dr. Paz is a Las Cruces native who has dedicated her career to caring for patients in southern New Mexico. She is a board certified family medicine physician who received her medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque and completed residency at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She has been a long term member of the National Hispanic Medical Association, and is secretary of the National Hispanic Health Foundation, as well as the New Mexico Hispanic Medical Association. This has given her the opportunity to serve as an advisor for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which focused on Aligning Forces for Quality: Improving Health and Health Care, and was appointed to the White House Commission for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Dr. Paz is passionate about education, and is involved with several community programs to educate students and parents. She also serves as a preceptor for medical students from the University of New Mexico. She is passionate about cultural issues and being attentive to how medical services are presented to various ethnic populations.