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Melissa Stockwell, MD MPH is the Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Health, Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs and Development and the Felice K. Shea Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Professor of Population and Family Health in the Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. She is also the founding director of the Department of Pediatrics’ Center for Children’s Digital Health Research. Additionally, she is a practicing pediatrician and is Associate Director of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) practice-based research network. Her areas of expertise and training include general pediatrics, preventive medicine, health services research, epidemiology, and public health. Dr. Stockwell’s work, which concentrates on underserved children and adolescents, focuses on interventions to improve vaccinations, with an emphasis on health technology and health literacy, as well as on respiratory infections and long COVID. Dr. Stockwell was appointed the convening chair of the Pediatric Coordinating Committee for the NIH’s RECOVER Long COVID initiative.
Throughout her career, she has been Principal Investigator on numerous studies from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA). She has published 174 scientific articles. She has been inducted into the American Pediatric Society, the oldest academic pediatric organization in North America.