Catholic Medical Association (CMA)

Welcome to the CMA website for UA COM-P students! 

Class of 2028 Student Leadership:

Faculty Advisors: 

Maricela P. Moffitt, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P

Dr. Moffitt graduated from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1986. She is Board certified in Internal Medicine and has practice Medicine for 26 years in Arizona. She obtained a Masters degree in Public Health in 1994 at the University of Arizona. Her research interest include Tuberculosis and medical education.

She is currently holds the academic rank of Professor of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Doctoring Curriculum at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix where she teaches communication and physical exam skills to medical students. She is a part-time Hospitalist at the VA Hospital in Phoenix. 

She has served on the 1st Way (a crisis pregnancy center) Board of Directors; The HOPE Mobile Ultrasound Unit Board; The national Catholic Medical Association Board (President 2012.) She currently serves on the Phoenix Diocesan Medical Ethics Board; The Catholic Physicians Guild of Phoenix Board. She teaches with her husband in the RCIA program at Corpus Christi parish. She is married to Dr. Robert A. Moffitt who is in deacon formation; they have three children.