Beverly A. Zavaleta MD

Beverly A. Zavaleta, MD is a board-certified family physician, cancer survivor and long-time advocate of patient education. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, where she designed and implemented an asthma patient education program. She completed her residency training in family medicine at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, Texas and practiced family medicine there for several years before transitioning to hospital medicine in 2012. In 2015 she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer and underwent a grueling chemotherapy regimen. That experience, along with her experience caring for patients with cancer, led her to write the chemotherapy patient education book, Braving Chemo: What to Expect, How to Prepare and How to Get Through It, published in 2019. Dr. Zavaleta’s health-related articles have appeared in the Brownsville Herald and on KevinMD. She lives in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas with her husband, two sons and two dogs, and when not making a mess of her garden, she is reading or doing yoga. For bonus material, more chemotherapy tips and Braving Chemo updates sign up at BeverlyZavaletaMD.com or follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @BZavaletaMD.