Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya, a native of Medellin, Colombia, graduated from the Institute of Health Sciences with her Doctor of Medicine degree in May of 1994. Her exceptional scholastic record earned a foreign exchange scholarship for her final year of medical school, enabling her attendance at Boston University and Harvard University Affiliated Hospitals. Dr. Ochoa-Maya completed her internship and residency at Boston Medical Center in 1997. She then continued her education and training with a Clinical Fellowship in Endocrinology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and followed that with a Research Fellowship at the Harvard School of Medicine.
In July 1999, Dr. Ochoa-Maya started with a multi-specialty practice in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and then in October of 2001, Dr. Ochoa-Maya started her own successful private practice in Westford, MA, where she developed a broad and loyal patient base. She was later recruited by the Pritikin Longevity Center near Miami, Florida, where she served as Chief of Endocrinology and Deputy Medical Director from 2003 through 2005.
Within the broad area of internal medicine, preventive medicine, women’s health, adolescent health, and endocrinology, Dr. Ochoa-Maya has developed extensive interest in the hormonal mechanisms of organ injury associated with the pathophysiology of hormones, obesity, hypertension and diabetes. She is also interested in the interrelationships between the environment, a healthy diet, routine exercise, and illness, including physical, psychological, and emotional health.
In September 2006, Dr. Ochoa-Maya opened her practice, Bedford Endocrinology PLLC, in Bedford New Hampshire. In this new practice, she applies the bio-psycho-social model, offering a new approach to health care with a great emphasis on prevention and patient centered care.
Dr. Ochoa-Maya demonstrates her ongoing commitment to patient education by leading open discussions focusing on her areas of expertise within endocrinology, and hopes to expand this commitment by actively entering the lecture circuit. She continues her dedication to medicine: she is the Medical Director for the Diabetes Education And Resource (DEAR) Program at Elliot Hospital and consults for various pharmaceutical and medical device companies in an effort to influence how one’s hormones have a direct impact on total health, happiness and physical appearance.
Dr. Ochoa-Maya presently resides in Bedford, NH, with her two children. In addition to fluency in English and Spanish, she is conversational in both German and French. Outside of medicine and motherhood, Dr. Ochoa-Maya enjoys reading and physical exercise, and recently she has become an enthusiastic and avid skier. |
Margarita Ochoa-Maya is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, is a Certified Diabetes Educator and Certified Densitometrist, owner and primary physician at Bedford Endocrinology. She also is currently the Medical Director for the Diabetes Education and Resource (DEAR) at the Elliot Hospital in Manchester, New Hampshire. She has been working closely
with patients
for many years and
she
has come
to learn
that
being
a
doctor
means being a friend too. It means that you have to
be cognizant of patients, their feelings, and their
families. This has allowed her to become a better
doctor,
something her patients will attest to personally.