Dr. Casey Drake
Dr. Casey Drake is a proud native of Nebraska. She graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1990, followed by a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in 1994. Dr. Drake then moved to Dallas, Texas, where she completed her training in Pediatrics at Children’s Medical Center-UT Southwestern Medical Center. She has been practicing as a board certified pediatrician since 1997.
Initially, Dr. Drake practiced as a general pediatrician at Creighton Medical Center in Omaha Nebraska. In 2001, her career focus shifted to Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine, when she started the first Pediatric Hospitalist Program in Nebraska at Children’s Hospital Omaha in cooperation with Creighton Medical Center. UT Southwestern Medical Center then recruited Dr. Drake back to Dallas to start the first Pediatric Hospitalist Program at Children’s Medical Center in 2002. Since then, she has started a private hospitalist group with priviliges at Lake Pointe Medical Center in Rowlett, Texas.
After realizing a growing need for Pediatricians in Rockwall County, she and Dr. Pecson decided to open a Pediatric clinic in Rockwall county. Dr. Drake resides in Rowlett with her husband and daughter.