She was a psychotherapist in the Bay Area for almost 5 years before pursuing her interest in medicine. Dr. Flores graduated from Stanford Medical School in 1985. She was awarded an Orinoco Foundation Scholarship while she was there and traveled extensively in Venezuela and the Amazon territory studying women’s health care as well as tropical medicine. She then did her residency in New Mexico at the University of Albuquerque Medical Center where she cared for many high risk OB patients.