Catherine Pence is the Nurse Practitioner at Coastal Medical Group. Her nursing career started when she graduated from George Mason University in 2012 with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She has subsequently worked as a registered nurse at Georgetown University Hospital on the Neuro/Stroke unit for two years, and from there moved to Austin where she worked on an intermediate care unit. A calling for further education brought her to Houston, where she worked at Memorial Hermann as a registered nurse on the trauma service line. She then started her graduate degree at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. She graduated from UTMB in December 2018, and started with Coastal Medical Group in April of 2019.