Angelique Varela, MD

Dr. Varela trained in the Harvard-Radcliffe Pre-Med Honors Program before earning her medical degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 1990. She completed her OB/GYN residency at the Los Angeles County–Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, one of the highest-volume teaching hospitals on the West Coast, where the faculty elected her Administrative Chief Resident in her final year. She is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition.

Her work has carried her across Arizona before she joined MomDoc's hospitalist group: solo private practice in Flagstaff, OB/GYN hospitalist coverage at Yavapai Regional, and laborist work at Canyon Vista Medical Center in Sierra Vista. That hospitalist arc is the through-line: Dr. Varela has been the doctor patients meet in labor and delivery, not the one who manages their prenatal visits, for most of her career. She is published in obstetric research, including first-author work on fetal platelet aggregation in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

At MomDoc, Dr. Varela is part of the call-only group, providing hospital coverage for the OB/GYN team rather than seeing patients in clinic. English and Spanish are both native languages for her, which matters when a patient is in active labor and the words need to land cleanly the first time. Her role is to be present and experienced when a MomDoc patient is admitted overnight, on a weekend, or under any circumstance where the people who already know the patient's care plan can't be there in person.