Born and raised in Minnesota, Shaquita is Cherokee on her mother’s side and African-American on her father’s.  She completed medical school at the University of Minnesota in 2006.  Dr. Bell then went on to pediatric residency at the University of Washington, which she completed in 2009.  In 2010 she remained at Seattle Children’s completing a chief residency year. Dr. Bell is currently a pediatrician and Senior Medical Director at the community health center Odessa Brown.  Dr. Bell is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Seattle Children’s and the University of Washington in the division of General Pediatrics. Recently she was awarded the Association of American Indian Physician’s 2022 Physician of the Year Award and the 2023 American Academy of Pediatrics Native American Child Health Advocacy Award

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