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Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellow
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Melissa is currently a first year PHM fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She grew up in South Florida and attended the University of Miami where she studied Neurobiology. There she found her passion for teaching and working with underserved communities as an America Reads Tutor. She stayed in South Florida for medical school, at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine, and pediatric residency, at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. During this time, she became involved in multiple projects and discovered her interest in quality improvement (QI) and medical education. Her main interests include QI, medical education, DEI, newborn medicine, and respiratory illnesses.