Dr. Montes was born and raised in California. She attended college at Arizona State University and completed medical school at the University of California in San Diego. She then did her four years of residency training at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco, California. Upon completing her residency, she moved on to private practice in California, and then in New York, before coming to Hickory in 1990. Now, well known in the Hickory community after her 17 years of work at Piedmont Obstetrics and Gynecology, she has made the decision to give up her obstetrical practice and open her own solo office.

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Dr. Montes is a past Chief of the OB/GYN department at Frye Hospital. She is very active in the community with regard to women's health care and has been a thought leader with regard to the development of the women's breast health and women's heart health programs at Frye Regional Medical Center. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and has privileges at both Frye Regional Medical Center and Catawba Valley Medical Center.

Being of hispanic origin herself, Dr. Montes feels a real connection with the hispanic community. She has spent many years learning to speak spanish, and has a large hispanic patient population.

Her greatest aspiration, is that she provides only one level of medical care.....SUPERIOR.....to any woman who walks through her doors. And along this vein, she has been named as an Honored Lifetime Member of Biltmore Who's Who Registry of Executives and Professionals as well as "Outstanding Woman of Catawba Valley” by the League of Women Voters in 2008

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