Dr. MaLena Sample was born to military parents at Fort Bragg, NC. During her last 2 years of high school, she attended the prestigious North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, NC where she completed her high school education with honors. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduation, she traveled to Budapest, Hungary and pursued her interest in medical research where she performed preliminary clinical research on the trasmission of viruses beteween animals and humans. She then returned to the states and attended the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and received her Doctorate of Medicine in 2002. Afterwards, she completed a 4 year residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Texas Tech University Health Science Center of Medicine in El Paso, Texas where she developed a special medical interest in urogynecology and female incontinence.
Since 2006, Dr. Sample has practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Hampton Roads. She joined her dear friend, Dr. Keisha Burfoot and Elite Women’s Care in 2010. Dr. Sample is Board certified, and a Fellow in the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, active in the community, and spends her leisure time with family and friends, watching science fiction movies, reading and traveling.