Melissa Villa, DO

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Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director of Clerkship Ultrasound Education, Emergency Medicine
Ultrasound Site Director, Pennsylvania Hospital
Department: Emergency Medicine
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Emergency Department
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (215) 316-5151
Education:
B.S. (Major: Biobehavioral Health; Minor: Health Policy and Administration; Minor: Biology)
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2014.
 DO (Osteopathic Medicine)
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, 2019.
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Selected Publications

Melissa Villa, Christy Moore, James Deering, Jodi Flanders: "An emergency medicine attending, radiologist and sonographer walk into a clinic in a low-resource setting" American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) 2026.

 Melissa Villa, Breck Wcisel, James Deering, Jodi Flanders: "Saving Limbs with Sound Waves: Ultrasound Diagnosis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Resource-Limited Setting" American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) 2026.

 Dreyfuss, A., Schmidt, J., Villa, M. : Ultrasound Applications in Global Health Springer, Cham. 2025 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85308-1_30.

 Melissa Villa, Jeffrey A. Kramer: "A case of left ventricular false chordae tendineae identified on point-of-care ultrasound" American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) 2025.

 Melissa Villa, Nova Panebianco, Gwen Baraniecki-Zwil, Frances Shofer, Jodi Flanders, James Deering, Jeffrey A. Kramer: "A Needs Assessment of Point of Care Ultrasound in the Resource-Limited Setting of Iquitos, Peru" American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) 2023.
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