Clinical Fellow
Melissa obtained her bachelor's degree in molecular genetics at The Ohio State University in 2007. She completed medical school also at Ohio State in 2011, followed by her pediatrics residency at Children’s National Medical Center/George Washington University in Washington, DC. She is currently a clinical fellow in Neonatology at Cincinnati Children's, and will be completing her training in 2017. Her primary project involves investigation of the genetic influences on preterm birth through genome wide association studies and whole exome sequencing. Melissa is also investigating subclinical pathogens/infection and their role in preterm birth. She is involved in recruitment, interviewing, and sample collection for the FETAL (Family and Environment in Timing for Abnormal Labor) study.