Melissa Villa, DO
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine
Director of Clerkship Ultrasound Education, Emergency Medicine
Ultrasound Site Director, Pennsylvania Hospital
Department: Emergency Medicine
Contact information
Department of Emergency Medicine
Administrative Office:
3400 Spruce Street
Ground Ravdin
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Administrative Office:
3400 Spruce Street
Ground Ravdin
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-662-6698 - Ext 3
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.
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.
Post-Graduate Training
Chief Resident, Inspira Health Network, Emergency Medicine , 2019-2022.
Ultrasound Fellow, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Emergency Department, 2022-2023.
Chief Resident, Inspira Health Network, Emergency Medicine , 2019-2022.
Ultrasound Fellow, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Emergency Department, 2022-2023.
Certifications
Medical Base Command Physician, 2022.
American Board of Emergency Medicine, 2022.
Permanent linkMedical Base Command Physician, 2022.
American Board of Emergency Medicine, 2022.
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.