Sara Garcia Shank, MD, FAAP

Dr. Sara Garcia Shank, MD, FAAP, is a developmental behavioral pediatrician at Ochsner Children's Hospital, Michael R. Boh Center for Child Development. She graduated from medical school at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2017. She then finished her residency in pediatrics at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas in 2020. Dr. Shank completed a fellowship in developmental and behavioral pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine's Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics and Autism in Houston, Texas in 2023. She practiced in southern Alabama as an assistant professor at University South Alabama before starting at Ochsner in October 2025 and currently practices at the Ochsner main Jefferson Hwy. campus in New Orleans and in the Riverchase campus in Covington, LA.