Team

Melissa is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner. Melissa received her B.S. in Medical and Public Health Microbiology, and Minor in Biotechnology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where she conducted research with attenuated influenza virus H1N1 in the Undergraduate Biotechnology Laboratory. Her research was published for use as a Virology Laboratory currently implemented in the Cal Poly curriculum. Melissa received her B.S.N. from Samuel Merritt University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She worked as a registered nurse for a UCSF Dermatology Professor, prior to receiving her M.S. in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Georgetown University. Aside from working at USMA, Melissa currently practices as an NP at an urgent care clinic on weekends.

Melissa is a member of the California Association for Nurse Practitioners (CANP), American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), American Nurses Association (ANA), and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS). She is on the Medical Advisory Board for the Charles E. Holman Foundation.