
Dr. Isela IbarraMD, FAAP
Board-certified pediatrician
Dr. Isela Ibarra is a native of El Paso and attended Hanks High School. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin, graduated from Texas Tech Health Sciences Center medical school in 2001, and completed her pediatric residency in 2004 at the Children's Hospital of Austin, now Dell Children's Medical Center. She has been in private practice since 2006.
Dr. Isela Ibarra is a board-certified pediatrician with more than 20 years of experience, and she has cared for children and families in El Paso for nearly two decades. Her care is compassionate and evidence based, and her approach is gentle, thorough, and centered on partnership with parents.
Trust, communication, and consistency guide how she practices. She believes children feel safer when they see the same physician visit after visit, and she values the long-term relationships that grow out of that consistency.
Preventive care is the part of pediatrics she enjoys most. Healthy visits are where she has time to talk through developmental milestones, answer the questions parents have been saving up, and make sure nothing gets left unsaid.
She is also a mother of two, so she understands firsthand how overwhelming caring for a newborn can feel. Outside the clinic she enjoys walking, hiking, and traveling, and she completed a Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hike in May 2026.
- Board certified in pediatrics
- Native of El Paso, Hanks High School
- BA in Biology, University of Texas at Austin
- Medical degree, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, 2001
- Pediatric residency, Children's Hospital of Austin, 2004
- In private practice since 2006
- More than 20 years of pediatric experience
- Clinical Affiliate Professor, Texas Tech Department of Pediatrics
- Board member, El Paso Children's Hospital, 2019 to 2025
- Member, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Sees newborns at Las Palmas Medical Center and Providence Memorial Hospital
- PTA and community involvement
- Mother of two



